Nutritional Foundation 2 – Final Exam

True or false: Pottenger’s studies showed that deficiencies in nutrition affect the adrenal and thyroid glands, which leads to deficiencies in bone maturation.

True or false: Pottenger’s research showed no correlation between the quality of nutrition in childhood and the ability to handle stress in adulthood.

Which of the following are components of the “optimum diet”?

True or false: Deficient cats would continue to reproduce for 6 or more generations with each generation becoming more and more deficient.

The ability of the female cat to become pregnant, deliver, and nurse viable offspring was Pottenger’s definition of what?

According to Dr. Pottenger’s observations, the animals on raw milk demonstrated which of the following?

True or false: Cats fed sweetened condensed milk showed more damage and deficiencies than the cats fed pasteurized milk or evaporated milk.

True or false: Cattle fed dry feed showed the same adrenal decline as pastured cattle.

Dry fed chickens demonstrated low fertility.

Characteristics of normal cats include which of the following?

Less desirable skull development and malaligned teeth in the second generation, but improvement seen in the third and fourth generations is characteristic of which of the following?

True or false: The eruption of permanent teeth is often accompanied by bleeding gums, runny nose, fevers, and prostration as opposed to normal cats that have teeth without problems.

What did Pottenger find in his studies that demonstrates deficiencies contribute to allergies and thyroid disease?

True or false: Processed food changes the digestive track by causing elongated tracks and a lack of tone and elasticity.

True or false: Human milk has been duplicated in a laboratory.

Human milk is rich in which of the following?

Which of the following are benefits of good facial development in a young child?

True or false: Precipitated colloids, absence of mineral salts, minerals rendered less soluble, and affected antibodies, hormones, and enzymes are characteristics of raw milk.

True or false: Mother’s milk is always superior to cow’s milk. There are no exceptions.

True or false: The pasteurization of milk is contributing to improper growth and development.

True or false: The ingestion of cholesterol is directly correlated with the elevation of cholesterol.

What did Pottenger define as a mineral storehouse and a blood building organ?

True or false: The calcification of children can be improved through the highest grade of raw milk, raw meat, raw vegetables and fresh fruit.

If Pottenger’s findings are applied to human beings, we see which of the following?

Vital growth substances (proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, hormones, enzymes, and vitamins) are destroyed by which of the following?

Which of the following must nutrients provide according to Dr. Pottenger’s definition of optimal health?

True or false: Low energy, menstrual irregularity, frequent colds, poor skin, nervous exhaustion, irritability, and anemia can result from dieting.

Which of the following structures contain fats?

True or false: Carbohydrates are the energy fuel of the body.

Liver, brain, cod liver oil, soybean lecithin, and edible linseed oil are what Pottenger prescribed for what?

Hydrophilic colloids found in raw foods absorb digestive juices and prevent sour stomach.

True or false: Gelatin absorbs acid and can be digested into a colloidal suspension.

True or false: The High Protective Diet includes two parts protein, one part fat, and two parts carbohydrate.

In the High Protective Diet:

True or false: For children, it is recommended to give smaller portions and allow for second helpings.