HUM-FNW Unit 4 Study Guide

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HUM-FNW-3 Analyze factors affecting food choices and quality of diet.

  1. What does the USDA stand for?United States Department of Agriculture
  2. What is the USDA food and nutrition division responsible for?

-WIC – Woman Infant and Children

-SNAP – Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

-Food Security

-Child Nutrition Program –Foods Provided at School

-National Organic Program– regulations on organic farms/foods

-Farmers Markets

-Food Assistance

-Food Distribution

-Food Labeling & Packaging

-Food Recalls

-Food Safety

-Food Security

-Dietary Health

-Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

  1. What does WIC stand for?Woman Infant and Children
  2. What does SNAP stand for?Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
  3. What is the FSIS? Food Safety and Inspection Service
  4. Who is in charge of the FSIS?USDA
  5. What does the FDA stand for?Food and Drug Administration
  6. What does the FDA regulate?

Foods

Human Prescription and Non-Prescription Drugs

Vaccines, Blood products and other biologics

Medical Devices

Electronic Devices (those that produce radiation)

Cosmetics

Veterinary products

Tobacco

  1. What does GRAS stand for?Generally Recognized as Safe
  2. What does a GRAS product mean?The FDA has designated that a chemical or substance added to food is considered to be safe by experts and is exempt from FFDCA rules.
  3. Explain the Delany Clause?An amendment in 1958 to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 stating that pesticides should be regulated in processed foods when those foods have a higher concentration of pesticides than the raw food before processing.
  4. Define Psychological factors of food choices – How your thoughts and feelings affect your behavior.
  5. How do odors affect your food choices?They are a key part of flavor, trigger more memories than any other sense, can trigger good and bad memories and even cause you to like and dislike foods.
  6. How can emotions affect eating habits?Most people eat partly because they enjoy eating, some people eat more and some people eat less when they are sad which can cause then to be underweight and overweight.
  7. List Physical factors that affect your food choices. Substances from foods can help to build and repair tissue in our body.
  8. What are the two basic physical needs food meet?Food meets two basic needs: eases hunger and it can affect the overall state of your health.
  9. Define Agriculture.Use of knowledge and skills to tend soil, grow crops, and raise livestock.
  10. Define Environment.Refers to the interrelated factors as air, water, soil, mineral resources, plants and animals that ultimately affect the survival of life on earth.
  11. Define Sustainability- practices that are productive and profitable while still caring for the environment.
  12. What is the basic economic concept?Supply and Demand – consumers are willing to pay for a product and producers are willing to provide it.
  13. List reasons why low income families might not be able to afford healthy foods.In some countries people may not have enough food to feed themselves but have rare commodity items (coffee, sugar & cacoa bean)and so the land is used to grow these items instead of needed food for the area. The money then goes to wealthy landowners.The poor farmers who raise the crops don’t have enough money to get themselves out of poverty.
  14. How does food supply affect your food choices?

-In regions of the world foods choices are limited due to their location

-It might cost too much have foods that are not in the region transported to the area.

-The people may be limited to only foods and livestock grown in that area due to lack of resources (money, economic development).

  1. Explain how food advertising and packaging can help you make food choices.Advertisements make you aware of new foods and information about nutrition. Packaging can draw your eye to a food you never noticed, give nutritional information and photographs that can entice you to purchase the food.
  2. List the five senses. Taste, touch, sound, sight and smell.
  3. Explain how available food supply in an area can affect a person’s food choices.Foods that are available in your specific area are cheaper because they do not have to be transported as far and are usually easier to grow in your area and available.
  4. How can cultural choices affect your likes and dislikes of foods? Unique foods that affect your religion or the area you live in can affect your food choices. Ex: Jewish religion and a kosher diet.
  5. Food allergies involve sensitivityto the body’s immune system.
  6. Food intolerance is where the body has trouble digesting or handling a component of food. Example gluten or lactose.
  7. Diabetes is a condition in which the body can’t control levels of sugar in the blood properly.
  8. Define food additives - used to improve flavor or appearance.