The Nurse Is Teaching a Class on Dietary Supplements

question 14

Multiple Choice

The nurse is teaching a class on dietary supplements. The nurse determines that learning has occurred when the patients make which statement?

• A) "Products can make claims based on body structure and function like 'promotes healthy urinary tract.'"
• B) "Dietary supplements must go through rigorous testing prior to being marketed by the manufacturer."
• C) "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not involved with the approval of the dietary supplement and cannot remove it from the market."
• D) "The manufacturer of the dietary supplement has the burden of proof for the safety of the supplement."

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Definitions:

Fasting

The voluntary abstention from eating and sometimes drinking for a defined period of time for health, religious, or other reasons.

Hypothalamus

An area in the brain situated beneath the thalamus, which is responsible for regulating the autonomic nervous system and the pituitary gland's function, overseeing the regulation of body temperature, thirst, hunger, and other systems that maintain bodily equilibrium.

Brain

The central organ of the nervous system, housed within the skull, responsible for complex functions such as thought, memory, emotion, and motor skills.

Body Temperature

The measure of the body's ability to generate and get rid of heat, indicating the balance of heat produced by metabolic activities and lost to the environment.