Nutrition Self Quiz (prep for Nutrit II midterm 2009)

What do you suspect if your patient chronically has canker sores in her mouth?
gluten enteropathy

What is the biggest difference between modern human diets and that of paleolithic humans?
we eat more grass family foods now
(wheat, corn, barley, oats, rice, ie: grains, agriculture)

What is the natural expiration age for humans?
somewhere between 110 and 120 years of age

What are the top five causes of death in the US?
CV dz, CA, medical care, DM, stroke
( scroll on down to see what you know )

Chagas Disease: about the causative organism T.cruzi

not to be confused with African trypanosomiasis which is caused by T. brucei gambiense and T. brucei rhodesiense and transmitted by Tse Tse flise
( notes )