Nutrition Project-4

Question 1

What might the media’s influence be on a person’s perspective? What perspective of a person’s?

Answer 1

The greatest influence on a person’s nutritional intake and healthy body weight.

Question 2

How many advertisements is an average teenager exposed to?

Answer 2

250 to 500 daily.

Question 3

Girls are to look like?

Answer 3

“Play dolls”

Question 4

Boys are to look like?

Answer 4

“Superheroes and action figures”

Question 5

Because of the influences, men and women often suffer from what to obtain beauty from the media’s perspective?

Answer 5

Various eating disoders.

Question 6

What are larger bodies associated?

Answer 6

They are valued and often associated with wealth, power, fertility and status.

Question 7

Between what ages are puberty taking changes?

Answer 7

Between the ages of 9-16.

Question 8

What are the most powerful determinants of how your body will look?

Answer 8

Puberty changes, body types, genetics, and metobolism.

Question 9

How might you develope a positive body image for a teen?

Answer 9

Let them hear positive body image messages and learning to understand the impact of those messages.

Question 10

Who can these messages be given by?

Answer 10

Teachers, parents, peers or the media.

Question 11

The energy consumed daily equals what?

Answer 11

It should equal the energy extended daily.

Question 12

Are the vitamins and minerals we take contirubuting to our energy?

Answer 12

Although we need them to function, the nutrients do not contribute to our energy.

Question 13

Why is everyone’s energy different?

Answer 13

Because it is a total of your basal metabolic rate, the energy used for physical activity, and the amount of energy you need to digest the food you eat (thermic effect).

Question 14

How can you maintain a healthy body weight?

Answer 14

Maintaining a healthy body weight is largely dependent on keeping the calories you get from food balanced with your daily activity.

Question 15

Being moderately active can lower the risks of what?

Answer 15

Being moderately active can lower the risks of:
•high cholesterol and heart disease
•high blood pressure
•type 2 diabetes
•joint problems
•illness and infections
•tiredness and low blood iron (anemia)
•certain types of cancer
•eating disorders
•depression

Question 16

What do many doctors and nutrition experts recommend for Canadians to take daily?

Answer 16

Multi-vitamins for the missed nutrients we lack in our diets.

Question 17

Supplements will not make up for what?

Answer 17

Poor diet.

Question 18

Mega-doses are said to prevent what?

Answer 18

Loading up on certain vitamins may prevent cold.

Question 19

Loading up on vitamins is actually unhealthy, what mega-doses may actually cause?

Answer 19

They might lead to serious health issues.

Question 20

Many people take vitamins and supplements without what?

Answer 20

WIthout knowing to get the best results.

Question 21

How have you learned your eating habits from your family?

Answer 21

Because of your family some of the food choices made for you as you grew up included where and when you ate, what you ate, how food was prepared, and probably how much you ate.

Question 22

What is the myth “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.” based upon?

Answer 22

It is loosely based on the fact that apples contain Vitamin C, which helps keep your immune system healthy.

Question 23

As you get older, who might influence your eating habits more?

Answer 23

Your friends, because they might push you towards new and different foods.

Question 24

The goal of Health Canada is to provide Canadians with nutrition information that is based on what?

Answer 24

• based on evidence
• easily understood
• relevant to Canadian cultures
• easy to make part of your life

Question 25

Advertisements found on tv or in the newspaper is a business. What is the main goal?

Answer 25

Their main goal is to make a profit.