WK 3 - Eating and Health

Question 1

What food and eating can be associated with?

Answer 1

Acquiring
Preparing 
Symbolic
Moral
Cultural 
Binding people 
Communities.

Question 2

Name some of the impacts of the Agricultural revolution?

Answer 2

• Food supplies dependent on local weather conditions
• The diet became less varied
• Malnutrition anemia and osteoporosis
• Average levels of activity and energy expenditure decreased

•Bowel and respiratory infections
increased

• Birth rate increases
• Warring over territory
• New pathogens and epidemics

• Social problems related to population density and
ownership became prevalent

• Psychosocial and socio-economic stress related to
population density property status

Question 3

What came with The Industrial revolution?

Answer 3

• Advances in technology
• Rise in labour saving appliances
• Food in Western societies is far more readily available

Question 4

What 2 things would change industry?

Answer 4

• Government policy

- Consumer demand

Question 5

What is the definition of obesity?

Answer 5

Obesity has been defined as a chronic, relapsing,
neurochemical disease (Bray, 2003a). It is manifested
by an increase in size and number of fat cells
(adipose tissue)

Question 6

What works in role modelling influences to children?

Answer 6

An older child
A friend
Their parents

Question 7

What is associative learning?

Answer 7

Associative learning refers to the impact of contingent factors on behaviour

Food as a reward

Question 8

What are some of the problems with this developmental model?

Answer 8

Research often carried out within a controlled environment

Need to look at the sociological meanings behind food

How does this work take into account the meanings of the body