True or False: One of the central tenants of motivational interviewing is that the client and coach work together to determine what the client is ready, willing, and able to do, instead of being told exactly what to do by the coach.

Which statement LEAST represents coaching behavior change from a motivational interviewing perspective:

A client-centered nutrition coach:

Which item LEAST represents one of the core concepts of Deep Health:

Some practical talking points / analogies to share with a nutrition client that tends to be “all or nothing” may include:

True or False: According to researcher Dr. Yoni Freedhof, MD, your “best weight” is when a nutrition client achieves a BMI (body mass index) in the “healthy range” between 18.5-24.9 kg/m2, which is associated with the lowest risk of chronic disease.

Which of the following statements is/are true regarding healthy weight management in obesity:

All of the following are part of the Nutrition Coaching Code of Ethics, EXCEPT for:

All of the following represent Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) EXCEPT for:

One of the most powerful driving forces for lasting behavior change is a client’s:

A nutrition client is just about to wrap up a nutrition coaching session with you (the coach), with the overarching goal of losing weight. Which take-home, client-centered nutrition goal best represents an appropriate action step to help your client achieve lasting weight loss:

Which goal listed below represents an “Approach Goal”?

True or False: Evidenced-based practice (EBP) is the intersection of scientific evidence, the coach’s experience, and what works for the majority of people.

The name of the wave-like contractions that help push food down and along the gastrointestinal tract is called:

The majority of water and salt during digestion is absorbed in the:

Chemical bonds in food are broken down by:

True or False: Insulin is the name of the pancreatic hormone that raises blood sugar levels.

Bile is made in the ________________, and stored in the _______________.

True or False: “Fight, flight, or freeze” best represents our sympathetic nervous system, while “rest, digest, recover” best represents our parasympathetic nervous system.

True or False: A high “volumetric meal” allows a nutrition client to eat a relatively large volume of food, for relatively few calories per gram.

How many calories per gram (kcal/g) does protein yield?

True or False: Alcohol is considered to be an essential nutrient.

Which energy system has the fastest speed of action to produce ATP molecules as an energy source to working muscles?

Which statement about creatine is true:

True or False: High intensity exercise uses mostly fat as the main fuel source to produce ATP for energy.

When glucose is produced inside the body by the liver out of non-carbohydrate substances, this is called:

True or False: The FDA permits inaccuracies on food labels to be up to 35%.

True or False: Chopping or blending food increases the number of calories our bodies can absorb from the food.

True or False: White fat can burn up to 400 calories more per day, compared to brown fat.

True or False: Pregnant women need the same amount of carbohydrates as non-pregnant women.

All of the following are examples of simple sugars except for:

Which statement about fiber is FALSE:

True or False: Multigrain and whole grain are just two different words for the same thing.

Which of the following is NOT a major role that protein plays inside the body:

Which dietary source of protein is considered to be “complete”, meaning it contains all essential amino acids needed for human health:

Which of the following is NOT a major role that fat plays inside the body:

Which food listed below contains the highest amounts of ALA (alpha-linolenic acid)?

Another name for Vitamin B2 is:

True or False: Nutrient-dense foods are relatively high in vitamins and minerals and relatively low in calories.

True or False: An example of water behaving as a solvent and transporter is our blood, which brings nutrients to our cells and carries waste products away.

A client’s thirst will generally be increased in all of the following scenarios EXCEPT for:

When someone rapidly consumes a large amount of water, relative to the sodium content in their blood, this can result in:

All of the following can increase the stress load on the body, EXCEPT for:

Our total stress burden is known as the:

Some of the most research-backed and beneficial recovery strategies include:

All of the following represent Level 1 Foundational Nutrition Skills, EXCEPT for:

All of the following represent Level 2 Foundational Nutrition Skills, EXCEPT for:

True or False: Realistic and reasonable fat loss is in the range of 0.5-1% of bodyweight per week, and not much faster than that for most people.

Highly aggressive Level 3 nutrition goals should typically not be enforced on a nutrition client longer than _____ months, maximum, without giving their body a break.

True or False: On average, healthy adult female body fat percentages are typically about 10% fatter than male body fat percentages, for the same level of overall health.

True or False: For a beginner male athlete who has just started weight training, it would be reasonable for him to expect to gain muscle at the rate of 4-6 lb/month, without the help of any performance enhancing drugs.

In pregnancy, by the third trimester, a pregnant mother should be eating approximately _______ more calories/day on average, to support the growing baby inside of her.

Pregnant mothers are strongly encouraged to avoid or limit all of the following things EXCEPT for:

Which strategy would NOT help an underweight person to gain weight?

Which food isn’t on the “big 8” list of the most common food allergens that account for 90% of all food allergies: