Applying Content Knowledge
Directions: Answer each question below. When you have completed the assignment, upload it
into the online classroom.
Chapter 4 Carbohydrates
Scenario #1:
You are at a restaurant having lunch with friends. After hearing you order a
sandwich on whole-wheat bread, a friend comments, “Whole-wheat bread, white bread, what’s
the big deal? They’re all complex carbohydrates.”
Question:
How would you respond?
- I tell her that wheat bread is made up of all the components of the rain, the bran, germ and endosperm
whereas white bread only contains the endosperms because it is stripped of the other components as its processed.
Scenario #2:
Scott’s girlfriend has invited him home for Sunday lunch to meet her parents.
Their relationship is serious, and Scott is a bit nervous during the lunch. The lunch consists of a
tossed salad with her mom’s special buttermilk dressing, baked ham, sweet potato casserole,
broccoli in cheese sauce, hard-crusted dinner rolls with butter and strawberry preserves, milk
or iced tea, and cheesecake for dessert. Approximately 1 hour after lunch, Scott was not feeling
well. His stomach was cramping; he felt bloated and developed a case of diarrhea.
Question:
What might be the problem?
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From all of the diary consumed and his symptoms I would take an educated guess that
he is lactose intolerant, or his stomach just isnt sitting right because it's not enough of
the other proteins/fibers involved.
Chapter 5: Fats
Scenario #1:
Disease prevention for chronic diet-related diseases depends on changes in
lifestyle behaviors. Consider the lifestyle behaviors John Mason could adopt on the basis of his
personal history. John Mason is a 20-year-old white man; his mother and father both have high
cholesterol levels and a family history of cardiovascular disease.
Questions:
1. Although John’s cholesterol level is average for his age, what three disease prevention strategies
could he pursue?
1. Limit foods high in saturated fats, choose food low saturated in fat, eat food with naturally high fiber.
2. Make sure he's getting regular physical activity
3. Avoid drinking too much alcohol.
2. Would these strategies be primary, secondary, or tertiary?
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These strategies would be considered Primary because he has not yet been diagnosed
with high cholesterol, these strategies are to help prevent him from getting it.
Scenario #2:
Although dietary fat consumption has decreased over the past several years,
many Americans are still overweight.
Question:
What might be contributing to this epidemic?
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Because fat consumption is only part of the problem it may look like hasn't anything
changed but we still have to factor in the portions of people's food, how often they eat,
Also a lot of Americans are not as active as they should be or even active at all.
Chapter 6: Protein
Scenario #1:
Karen and her husband, Roger, want to reduce their intake of fat and increase their fiber intake.
Both grew up in families who prided themselves as being the “meat and potatoes” type.
Question:
What three strategies could they adopt to restructure their dinner plates to meet MyPlate goals?
1. Eat mostly whole grains (have more fiber in them)
2. Only a palm size of protein is needed a. Switch to lean choicess (beas, fish, chicken etc)
3. Eat more fruits
Scenario #2:
A 40-year-old mother of two wants to follow a lacto-vegetarian diet.
Question:
What suggestions for breakfast meals could you provide that would follow these guidelines?
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Oatmeal with cut up fruit like a banana, apple, orange or berries
Smoothie with protein, veggies, and fruit
Avocado toast with tomatoes