Nutrition

Event Description - This event shall be a written test requiring competitors to apply, analyze, synthesize and/or evaluate information related to nutrition and health. Competitors will recognize, identify, define, interpret or apply terms related to nutrition in a 100 item multiple choice test plus one tie-breaker essay question for the Secondary and Postsecondary/Collegiate division and a 50 item multiple choice test plus one tie-breaker essay question for the Middle School division. Written test will measure knowledge and understanding at the recall, application or analysis levels. Higher-order thinking skills will be incorporated as appropriate. 

Official References for Nutrition:

• Nutrition & Diet Therapy, 11th Edition. Roth, Ruth A.

Nutrition & Diet Therapy, 10th Edition Textbook

• Williams' Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy, 15th Edition. Nix, Staci. Elsevier Medical Sciences.

Basic Nutrition & Diet Therapy Master Set