Describe the changes you would make in your diet if you implemented the Dietary Guidelines for Americans


• Balancing calories to manage weight
• Foods and food components to reduce
• Foods and food nutrients to increase
• Building healthy eating patterns

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Explain the use of the Daily Value column on the Nutrition

Facts panel of a food label.

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Cigarette smokers are more likely to have an increased risk of poor bone health for all of the following reasons except:

a. tobacco smoke decreases intestinal calcium absorption. b. nicotine is toxic to osteoblasts. c. cadmium is toxic to osteoblasts. d. both nicotine and cadmium inhibit osteoclasts.

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You would like to bake a special birthday cake for a friend who has celiac disease. The original cake recipe is made with whole eggs, wheat flour, milk, sugar, vanilla, and butter. To make a cake that is safe for your friend to consume, you plan to substitute ________ for the ________ in the recipe.

A. aspartame; sugar B. margarine; butter C. cornmeal; flour D. water; milk

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The largest amount of glycogen is stored in ____

A) skeletal muscle B) nonskeletal muscle (heart, kidneys) C) the liver D) the brain and neurological tissues

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