Assignment:
Section: Knowledge & Comprehension
A. If you want to look great, feel great and perform at the highest level, you need to consume a performance-oriented diet rich in foods that do what, not foods that do what else?
B. In line with your mother's intuitive prescription, we recommend that you consume a diet composed of approximately what percent carbohydrate, about what percent protein and what percent fat. How much saturated fat and trans fats should you consume in your diet?
C. If you eat a well balanced diet, are you likely to need to take any supplementary vitamins?
D. Why are, "one-food wonder" diets nutritionally unsound?
E. Why is it important to make a concerted to select and consume a variety of different types of foods, and in particular fruits, vegetables and whole-grain products?
F. What food stuff fuel (carbohydrate, protein or fat) is the primary source of fuel for firefighting and the performance of other high-intensity physical activities?
G. What foodstuff fuel is the preferred source of fuel for muscles performing moderate to high -intensity aerobic work, red blood cells delivering oxygen to working muscle and brain cells that enable you to think?
H. What type of food products should you consume it you want to eat more to weigh less?
I. Identify the 6 types of carbohydrate foods that will help you to perform at your highest physical potential?
J. Provide three reasons why high-protein diets are particularly dangerous to high-performance firefighter/athletes.
K. What are the number one and two killers of firefighters, and what specific types of food can you eat to help prevent the development of these two deadly diseases?
L. When you hold a stalk of broccoli in your hand, what should you be thinking in terms of its value in terms of aiding in the prevention of colon cancer?
M. If you really love a food that you know is unhealthy, how should you act in order to modify its consumption? Why?
N. What happens to the excess carbohydrate or protein that you consume?
O. Why do you tend to overeat when you eat very fast?
P. What important function do B vitamins play with firefighter/athletes and from what foods can they be obtained?
Q. Briefly describe the critical function that antioxidants serve in the human body. What vitamins are recognized as being antioxidants and from what types of foods might they be obtained?