Food Guide-Laurelle Flashcards
What is the must to create a food guide?
Must have a political commitment
What are the 3 conditions (goals) required to develop a food guide?
-To improve nutrition
-To support purpose of Food Guide
-To create tool that addresses needs of specific community
What is the first step in creating a food guide?
Planning
What is the second step in creating a food guide?
Characterizing target group
What is the third step in creating a food guide?
Setting objectives
What is the fourth step in creating a food guide?
Preparing technical guidelines
What are the fifth, sixth, seventh and eigth steps in creating a food guide?
-Testing feasibility of recommendations
-Preparing finalizing the food guide
-Validating
-Correcting and adjustment
What are the two last step in creating a food guide?
-implementing
-Evaluating
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
True
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
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
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
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Plan for next versions of guide
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
True
Which country has the palm-shaped food guide?
Saudi Arabia
What does not South Africa have in their food guide that other countries have?
Absence of items whose consumption should be limited like highly processed foods high in sugar, fat and salt.
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)
Germany
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 ?
USA
What target does Canada’s food guide have?
Members of Canadian population 2 years of age and older.
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)?
Nigeria
Which countries include environmental issues in their food guide recommendations? (like eat local products and emphasize on organic and seasonal products etc.)
France
What is (are) the similarity and the differences between the Peru’s food guide and the Israel’s food guide?
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
Which country has 146 pages for its food guide?
Brazil
What is the most important thing to know ?
WE CAN DO IT GUYSSSS AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF ;)
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” ?
China
What is the shape of the Japan’s food guide? What is the order of the food groups?
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
