Week 12 Flashcards
What is food security?
A situation that all people at all times have access and availability to enough food for an active and healthy life
How does food insecurity occur?
Food insecurity occurs when there is a disruption to the food supply chain. This can occur due to food not being stored, distributed, kept safely or if there is a slow action to any of these then it can disrupt the timing of when food is accessed.
Culture and its effect on oral health?
Recognize a need for nutrition and mist consider the traditional methods of growing and storing food. Dental caries begins on the outside of the tooth due to nutrition
Understanding Nutrition:
- People choose foods due to personal preference, habit, ethnic heritage or tradition, social interactions, availability, convenience, the economy, positive and negative associations, emotional comfort, values, nutritional health benefits
What’s in food?
We select various types for a variety of reasons, our food choices over time can influence our health. All the energy structural materials and regulating agents our body needs come from the foods we eat
What are nutrients and their classes?
Chemical substances obtained from food and is used in the body to provide energy, structural materials and regulating agents to support growth, maintenance and repair of the body’s tissues.
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, Water, Substances used for growth, maintenance and repair of its tissues
Non-nutrients:
Fibers, Phytochemicals, Pigments, Alcohols, Additives, some are beneficial some are neutral, some may be harmful
How much of food do we need?
Nutrient Recommendations Values which are a set of values for each nutrient
What is a food group system?
- Provides a translation of the nutrient recommendations into amounts from each food group required to meet the nutrient recommendations In Australia
- Food groups are based on their type and the main nutrients they contribute
- The healthiest choices within each group are those which are lowest in saturated fats, added sugars and salt
- Foods within the same food group can vary in nutrient content
What influences food choice?
Hunger, income and cost of food, access and availability, utilization, ability to prepare, knowledge and skills, attitudes and beliefs, culture and traditions, food environment, food labelling, marketing and advertising, personal preference
What is availability and access?
Food availability: Majority of food insecure people in countries like Australia have regular meals, but many of these meals are of poor nutritional quality. Having sufficient quantities of nutritious food available consistently is one of the pillars of food security
Food Access: Purchases such as poverty, remoteness and limited physical access to food, social isolation, frailness and chronic illness
What is Affordability and use?
Cost is a primary determinant of food choice, depending on a persons income and socioeconomic status. Low income have greater tendency to consume unbalanced diet. Food choice can be influence by store location and the availability, variety, price within stores.
Food Use: Knowledge of basic nutrition and cooking skills as well as adequate water and sanitation
What are inequities to food selection?
Higher prices at more independent stores in regional areas, accessibility to shops,
How does convenience impact food selection?
Purchase ingredients that are semi-prepared, time in kitchen is limited, kitchen facilities and food preparation knowledge can also be limiting factors
How does Ethnic Heritage or Tradition impact food selection?
Tend to eat types of food we grew up eating, modelling learnt behaviors, same rituals and preparing foods
What are other reasons people choose foods?
Values, Habit, Personal preference, social interactions, environmental factors, food preparation setting, environment, positive and negative associations, emotional comfort, body weight and image, culture,
