Week 10 - Using Consumer Knowledge to Analyse Food Diets and Nutrition Claims

Question 1

What do food diets contain?

Answer 1

Promise of a quick change, promotes ‘magic’ foods, implies that food can change body chemsitry, excludes or severly restricts food groups, has rigid rules that focus on weight loss, makes claims based on a single study or testimonies only

Question 2

What can cutting food groups do to your body?

Answer 2

Causes deydration, weakness and fatigue, nausea, and headaches, constipation, inadequate mineral and vitamin intake, constipation.

Question 3

What is the result of so many food diets and fads?

Answer 3

Many are unsure of what is healthy anymore, some having no idea.

Question 4

Who are fad diets promoted by?

Answer 4

Celebrities, health gurus, famous chefs, people with something to gain from increased popualrity.

Question 5

What is the misconception about gluten?

Answer 5

Is often seen as weight-gain foods, dangerous, and bad, hence try gluten free. yet, these foods often have added sugars and fats

Question 6

What strategies are applied to sell fad diets?

Answer 6

Exaggeration of health benefits, lack of evidence to support claims, use of fear factors, building of pressure, use of scientific language, feeling of uniqueness

Question 7

What are nutrient supplements?

Answer 7

Concentrated forms of one or many nutrients that are taken.

Question 8

What is the misconception of nutrient supplements?

Answer 8

There are no health benefits for most because they are not kept in the body and are quickly passed, becoming a great expense with no gain.