Nutritional Foundation Final Exam

What did Dr. Price consider to be the key component of healthy diets?

True or false: The diets of the healthy primitives all contained some form of quality animal proteins and animal fats eating the foods they would naturally find in nature.

Consumption of your native ethnic diet in an unprocessed form will result in which of the following?

True or false: In the regions where degeneration has taken place, the animal stock has not declined.

True or false: According to Dr. Healy, mental deficiencies form the largest single cause of deliquency.

True or false: Individuals with rampant tooth decay were most susceptible to other illnesses.

What did Native Americans have a cure for and was known as “White Man’s Disease”?

True or false: Dr. Price found there to be a direct correlation between the length of exposure to white flour, polished rice, canned goods and sugar and the rate of dental decay and abnormal dental arches.

Which of the following are characteristics of individuals living in their native state and eating their native diet?

True or false: Little to no decline in reproductive efficiency occurs after an abandonment of native foods.

True or false: The Maori race was reported to be the most physically perfect race on earth. This was due to a knowledge of food preservation and a system of exchanging live nutrients for a longer shelf life.

True or false: The value of sea animals was widely known by the people of Peru. Sea animals proved valuable as human food as well as playing a vital role in the highest quality fertilizer.

After how many generations of eating a modernized diet does a narrowing of the face and crowded, deformed dental arches appear?

Which of the following, when adopted by the Peruvian Indians, proved to cause wide-spread decay and a change in facial and dental arch formation?

True or false: Vitamin B deficiency produces severe nervous system reactions.

True or false: Animal instinct is honored by many as we make dietary choices in today’s world.

Which of the following did primitive races consume liberally?

The primitive races studied by Dr. Price understood that special nutrition was required by whom?

True or false: Iodine is essential for human growth and development and necessary to maintain fertility in woman.

Where is the greatest breakdown in our modern diet?

True or false: Consuming two times the requirements of normal adults will ensure adequate nutrition during periods of rapid growth, pregnancy, lactation, and sickness.

True or false: Vitamin D can be readily synthesized in humans.

True or false: Dr. Price found primitive racial stock living solely on plant foods to be successful at building and maintaining excellent bodies.

True or false: It does not matter what the source of vitamins and minerals may be, so long as the supply is adequate.

Hunger appeals should reach beyond that of energy for heat and power. Hunger appeals should include which of the following?

True or false: Analysis of butter samples from around the world all showed a seasonal rise and fall in vitamin content. The highest level was associated with the use of rapidly growing young plant food.

When Dr. Price supplemented school children nutritionally at their noon meal, what was demonstrated in the outcome?

True or false: The use of small quantities of very high-vitamin butter mixed in equal parts with a high-vitamin chicken liver is the program Dr. Price found most efficient.

Which of the following can result when cod liver oil is given in too large of a dose?

True or false: Cod liver oil is vulnerable to oxidation and rancidity.

True or false: According to Dr. Price’s studies, divergence from normal facial patterns lessened with each generation that was in contact with modern civilization.

True or false: When deformities of physical structure have been demonstrated in the children of a family, there is no physical improvement in children born after the parents have returned to their normal diet.

Which of the following play a role in the presence or absence of physical deformity?

Effects of Vitamin E deficiency can include which of the following?

Effects of Vitamin A deficiency can include which of the following?

When should the preparation for the next generation begin?

True or false: The tissues of the nervous system are the most easily affected of all the structures of the body.

Which of the following are expressions of the borrowing processing seen in society today?

True or false: Pasture animals and humans can obtain the total mineral requirements of ordinary metabolism by consuming a sufficient amount of low mineral plant food.

True or false: Cows eating rapidly growing young grass produce high quality milk products, are in better physical condition, have claves that grow more rapidly, and are more resistant to disease than those on grain concentrates.

True or false: In nature, minerals are temporarily loaned to the plants and animals and their return to the soil is essential.

True or false: A minimal variety of foods is required to supply the body’s demand for calcium and phosphorus, and organic catalysts, especially the fat-soluble activators, including the known vitamins.

Life in its fullness is what?

What did Dr. Price find to be the best source of activator X?

True or false: Timed-release chemical application is the food-producing force within the soil that reveals national and international patterns of weakness or strength.

What is the universal food?

True or false: The primitive racial stocks were able to retain their high immunity to dental caries and disease through eating the native foods available in their area, despite these foods being different from the native diet of other primitive areas.

In proportion as man has learned to modify nature’s foods, he has done what?

Which of the following are important points to instill in our children when teaching nutrition and physical degeneration?

What does data reveal to be our greatest need?

Which of the following has practically no minerals or activators?

True or false: White flour has had about four-fifths of the minerals and nearly all of the germ with its activators removed.

What must we do to apply what Dr. Price learned from the primitive people?