Food Guide-Laurelle

Question 1

What is the must to create a food guide?

Answer 1

Must have a political commitment

Question 2

What are the 3 conditions (goals) required to develop a food guide?

Answer 2

-To improve nutrition
-To support purpose of Food Guide
-To create tool that addresses needs of specific community

Question 3

What is the first step in creating a food guide?

Answer 3

Planning

Question 4

What is the second step in creating a food guide?

Answer 4

Characterizing target group

Question 5

What is the third step in creating a food guide?

Answer 5

Setting objectives

Question 6

What is the fourth step in creating a food guide?

Answer 6

Preparing technical guidelines

Question 7

What are the fifth, sixth, seventh and eigth steps in creating a food guide?

Answer 7

-Testing feasibility of recommendations
-Preparing finalizing the food guide
-Validating
-Correcting and adjustment

Question 8

What are the two last step in creating a food guide?

Answer 8

-implementing
-Evaluating

Question 9

True or False
The third step in creating a food guide (setting objectives) is to
Prioritize the problems and issues to be addressed
Identify the priorities you can and will address
Identify the nutritional guideline objectives for each priority to be addressed

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True or false
The seventh step (validating) in creating a food guide consists :
Test new versions of visual aid and key messages with:
-Political Authorities
-Representatives of the targets group(s)/population(s)
Get approval from Key stakeholders

Answer 10

False
Real answer :
Test new versions of visual aid and key messages with:
-Key stakeholders
-Representatives of the targets group(s)/population(s)
Get approval from Political Authorities

Question 11

What is missing (characteristic) from the final step (evaluating) in creating a food guide?

Evaluate the guide when it is out:
-Level of acceptance
-Issues expressed by intended users
-Document use of educational material
Take corrective actions if needed
Take corrective actions if needed
…

Answer 11

Plan for next versions of guide

Question 12

True or false
The first step (planning) in creating a food guide consist:

Determine who is target group(s)/population(s)
For each group analyze nutritional, health status and risk factors like food insecurity affecting either
Identify major problems and issues to addressed

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Which country has the palm-shaped food guide?

Answer 13

Saudi Arabia

Question 14

What does not South Africa have in their food guide that other countries have?

Answer 14

Absence of items whose consumption should be limited like highly processed foods high in sugar, fat and salt.

Question 15

What is the country that has a food guide shaped in a circle divided in 6 food groups (cereals/potatoes, vegetables, fruits, milk/dairy products, meat/sausages/fish/eggs, fats/oils)

Answer 15

Germany

Question 16

For which country the dietary food guidelines are the basis of its food assistance and meal programs, nutrition education efforts, and decisions about national health objectives ?

Answer 16

USA

Question 17

What target does Canada’s food guide have?

Answer 17

Members of Canadian population 2 years of age and older.

Question 18

Which country has a food guide shaped as a pyramid that is divided in 5 food groups
(bread/grains/tubers, vegetables/fruits, eggs/fish/meat/dairy, oils/fats and confetionery)?

Answer 18

Nigeria

Question 19

Which countries include environmental issues in their food guide recommendations? (like eat local products and emphasize on organic and seasonal products etc.)

Answer 19

France

Question 20

What is (are) the similarity and the differences between the Peru’s food guide and the Israel’s food guide?

Answer 20

Similariity: 1 page

Peru:
-Represented by 2 circles and 1 base
-Inner circle represents proportions of main food groups like cereals, tubers, league=mes, fruits, vegetables, animal sources foods, milk and dairy, fat and sugars
Israel:
-Base to the top: water, vegetables/fruits, foods rich in protein such as meat, eggs and dairy products, fats/oil/sweets and snacks/soft drinks
-Food at the base should be consumed in large amount but the higher you go the the vertex, the smaller the daily amount of the food group is
-images around the pyramid represent physical activity

Question 21

Which country has 146 pages for its food guide?

Answer 21

Brazil

Question 22

What is the most important thing to know ?

Answer 22

WE CAN DO IT GUYSSSS AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF ;)

Question 23

Which country has a food guide used the concept of “Food Guide Pagoda” and has 2 other graphics added: “Balanced diet abacus” and “Balanced meal plate” ?

Answer 23

China

Question 24

What is the shape of the Japan’s food guide? What is the order of the food groups?

Answer 24

Designed according to traditional Japanese toy

-Order food groups = recommended daily intake —> top to the bottom: grain-based dishes like rice, bread and noodle, then vegetables based dishes like salads, soups and cooked vegetables, then fish/eggs/meat dishes
-Bottom= milk and fruit