Nutrition, Food Choices, and Health - Lecture 1

Question 1

What is healthy eating?

Answer 1

What we are trying to find is the individual! We aren’t trying to look at things as the collective. 2 different individuals have 2 different ways in which they handle food.

Question 2

What are the factors that influence what I eat?

Answer 2

1. Environmental Sustainability
2. Social network of family/friends
3. Food customs and cultures
4. Food cost
5. Education, occupation, and income
6. Routines and Habits
7. Lifestyle
8. Health and nutrition concerns, knowledge, and belief
9. Food Marketing
10. Food availability
11. Food flavor, texture, and appearance preference
12. Psychological needs

Question 3

Which two vegetables are the most commonly consumed in the United States?

Answer 3

1. Potatoes
2. Tomatoes

Question 4

Hunger… Psychological or Physiological?

Answer 4

Physiological

Question 5

Appetite… Psychological or Physiological?

Answer 5

Psychological

Question 6

How do hunger and appetite differ in the way they
influence our desire to eat?

Answer 6

Hunger - Physiological
Appetite- Psychological

Question 7

What factors influence satiety?

Answer 7

1. Fluids before eating
2. Mood
3. Hormonal
4. Exercise
5. Temperature

Question 8

What is satiety?

Answer 8

A feeling of satisfaction (no longer a desire to eat/full)

Question 9

Hypothalamus

Answer 9

region of the brain, regulates satiety

Question 10

What are the 3 things people strive to attain when choosing a diet? Can we attain them all?

Answer 10

1. Health
2. Aesthetics
3. Performance

• Though it may be argued we are typical to only be able to obtain 1

Question 11

What is Hunger?

Answer 11

physiological (internal) drive to find and eat food, mostly regulated by internal cues to eating

Question 12

What is appetite?

Answer 12

The psychological (external) influence that encourages us to find and eat…

Question 13

What is nutrition?

Answer 13

Risk
Healthy ———————— Disease

We look at the link between health and disease (Science). Deals with how we ingest, digest, absorb, transport, and excrete food.

Example: Difference between digestion of steak and a protein shake (same protein amount)

Question 14

Nutrients

Answer 14

Provide energy, kilocalories
Provide building blocks
Vital for growth and maintenance

Question 15

What are the three characteristics needed to be an essential nutrient?

Answer 15

• Has a biological function
• Omission results in decline of function
• Replenishing restores biological function

Question 16

What is the second-leading cause of
preventable death in the United States?

Answer 16

Obesity