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Match the Term with the Short Phrase or Description That

Question 81

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Match the term with the short phrase or description that best matches it.

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Correlation

Another name for fraud.

Essential nutrients

A correspondence school that grinds out degrees the way a grain mill grinds out flour.

Intervention study

All of the chemical and physical reactions occurring in living cells

Placebo

A measure of the energy that food can provide

Nutritionist

A school from which courses can be taken and degrees granted by mail.

Nutrient

A group of individuals with characteristics that match the group being treated in an intervention study but who receive a sham treatment or no treatment at all

Control group

Substances obtained from food and used in the body to promote growth, maintenance, and repair

First Amendment

Accuracy in results; low risk of results simply being a coincidence

Epidemiological study

A population study examining the effects of a treatment on experimental subjects compared to a control group

Diploma mill

The participants in a study who receive the real treatment or intervention under investigation

Experimental group

A person who claims to be capable of advising people about their diets.

Validity

A study of a population that searches for possible correlations between nutrition factors and health patterns over time

Metabolism

Part of the U.S. Constitution that guarantees freedom of the press.

Correspondence school

Conscious deceit regarding health that is practiced for profit.

Quackery

A published study whose results have been reviewed by experts in the field of study

Accreditation

A substance that must be obtained from food because the body cannot make it in sufficient quantities

Peer review

A simultaneous change in two factors

A professional who has graduated from a program of dietetics accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education (CADE).

Calories

A sham or neutral treatment given to a control group

Health fraud

A pproval by a professional organization of an educational program offered.