Unit 10: Preparations
(Quiz DUE before midnight [11:55 pm] Friday)
ACTIVITIES AT A GLANCE. Check them off as you complete them.
Post at least 2
responses to Dinner Conversation 10.
Complete Unit 10Study
Questions for 14 points
(be certain you've FIRST done ALL of the Preparation Questions below).
Complete Exam 2
for 15 points before the due date on Friday. The exam will
be a random selection of 20 questions taken from
the Study Questions for Unit 6, Unit 7, Unit 8,
Unit 9 and Unit 10 (You will be able to view your
Unit 10 results immediately after you take the
quiz so you can see what you got wrong before
taking the Exam). Each student
will see different questions on the exam but
they will be the EXACT same questions you saw on
the Unit quizzes. Be certain to prepare, as it is
timed.
Complete ClassEvaluation.
I will not read them until after
I've submitted grades, but you will
receive 1
point for completing it. (See the Preparation Questions below).
RESOURCES
CM Ch 9, 394-397 Mealtime Behavior, etc.
CM Ch 9, 410-416 The Fat Child, Weight & Health
CM Ch 9, 425-442 Nutritional Issues for Preschoolers
Fast
Food FACTS(Support
for this website was provided by grants from the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation and the Rudd Foundation, which are mobilizing
efforts and educating the public to improve our "food
environment".)
An 'Eat More'
Message for a Fattened America: A CONVERSATION WITH Dr.
Marion Nestle. NOTE After
you get to this particular url, you will be asked to register if
you haven't already. You won't be asked to do that again. New
York Times. February 19, 2002. By MARY DUENWALD.
Secrets
of slim French revealed. BBC News- UK Edition. 22
August, 2003. Just 7% of French adults are obese - three times
lower than in the United States. Now, researchers, on both sides
of the Atlantic including Dr. Paul Rozin of the University of
Pennsylvania, believe they have cracked the riddle.
*Yale Rudd
Center for Food Policy & Obesity Podcasts: Hot Topic
School Nutrition(Once you click on
the link above, you will see an "organized by" drop down box.
Select Hot Topic: School Nutrition. Choose one podcast to listen
to and share the title of the podcast you listened to and what
you found to be surprising or interesting based on what you
heard.)
Lunch
Love Community, an open source documentary project,
offering a mosaic of short films they call "webisodes" to
"inspire vision, passion and action among individuals and
communities, and help change the way our children eat."
Chefs
Move to Schoolsprogram,
run through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A "Success In
Their Own Words" video clip features Garrett Berdan, a chef and
RD who works for the Highline School District in Bend, Oregon.
Chocolate
Milk in Schools: Should It Be Banned?, by the Rudd
Center’s Marlene Schwartz, PhD, Deputy Director, and Kathryn
Henderson, PhD, Director of School and Community Initiatives,
Huffington Post.
A Really
Big Idea. By Bret Begun.Newsweek.
May 23, 2005. In 2005, Burger King introduced the Enormous
Omelet Sandwich, a 730-calorie breakfast product.
Understanding
Food Allergies (pdf file) Note: Food allergies
are briefly discussed on pages438-439of our text, and
must be attended to medically with a pediatric allergist and
dietitian who is experienced with the management of allergies.
Food allergies should not be self-diagnosed or managed.
III. Class Evaluation (for 1 point-
look in Week 10) Preparation Questions
What did you like about this class?
How could this class be improved? Moodle doesn't have a way for me to do
anonymous Surveys, so I'm sorry that your
comments will be linked to your name, although I
promise I won't look at them until after I've
submitted your grades.
V. Unit 10Study
Questions (14 points) Preparation Questions
According to the ACTIVITIES AT A GLANCE at the beginning of
this document, which Unit Quizzes should you review for Exam 2?
Select all that apply. (If
you need to refresh your memory about how to review results,
see Unit 2 beneath question #9.)
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Unit 10 (these results will be posted by Tuesday
afternoon)
According to the ACTIVITIES AT A GLANCE at the beginning of
this document, how many points do you earn by completing the
Class Evaluation?
EX 2 On pages 394-395, read
about "Teach Your Child to Behave at Meals". What does she
suggest will happen if you say "no dessert until you eat your
vegetables".
Your child will happily eat his vegetables
Your child will grouse (complain) about it, but he'll eat
his vegetables.
He will bargain with you and his behavior will improve.
He will bargain with you and his behavior will get worse
and worse.
EX 2 On page 395 of Child
of Mine, what does Satter say should be the first priority
when eating in restaurants:
nutritional quality of the meal
having a meal
EX 2 Satter says on page 395
"If you eat out only rarely, you can afford to throw nutritional
considerations to the winds and let your child order only what
he likes." On page 396 of Child of Mine, which of the
following are guidelines she lists for families that eat out a
lot?
(Select all that apply.)
Have at least 2 food groups.
Limit sweets to one per meal (milkshakes and soft drinks
count as sweets)
Keep it down to one fried food per meal. (grilled foods
like hamburgers don't count as fried foods)
Avoid desserts.
Keep dessert portions child-sized.
SURVEY
QUESTION: The next time you travel some place by car or
bus, in a 10-minute period, count how many places you pass whose
primary business is selling food, such as some sort of
grocery/convenience store or a restaurant. Consider it "passing
by" if it's easily in your line of vision and no more than about
a block away. If it's some sort of food place connected to a gas
station, it still counts, but stores like BiMart do NOT count
EX 2 Read about four-year-old
Toni on pages 410-413 of Child of Mine.Which alarmed
Toni's parents so much that they went to their pediatrician for
some answers: (only one is correct)
Her growth was at the 95th percentile while she was at the
50th percentile for height.
Dire warnings in the media about childhood obesity.
EX 2 According to Satter's
description, what happened when Toni's parents began restricting
Toni's meals to single servings, cutting way down on fats and
sweets, and limiting snacks to an apple or carrot sticks?
(Select all that apply.)
Toni began thinking about food all the time.
She constantly pleaded for food handouts.
She lost weight and became healthier and happier.
She snuck into the kitchen to eat.
She cried when her parents refused her food.
EX 2 According to page 412 of Child
of Mine, what is a good policy about desserts?
allow children to decide how much to eat
no seconds on dessert
EX 2 On page 413, what did her
Mom decide would've been a good thing to say to Toni when she
was filling her potluck plate with a number of frosted brownies?
She decided she should have said nothing since it was up
to Toni to decide what to eat.
She should have asked her to stop (after a portion)
because she wanted some herself.
EX 2 Why did the 6-year-old
mentioned on page 413 take a long time to trust that she's going
to get enough to eat?
Her eating had been restrained from birth.
Her eating had been restrained for a year.
EX 2 Read about "The Vulnerable
Child" on pages 414-416. Satter understands that the "stress of
having a special-needs child can make families compensate" by
"pressing the child to eat, or by giving him special treats".
Why does she think this is counterproductive?
Weight is likely to drop even further.
It is likely to make him fat.
OPINION QUESTION: Read what Satter says on page 427 of Child
of Mine regarding Halloween.
Do you agree with Satter's suggestion?
Read pages 438 to 442 in Child of Mine. Based of the
information on these pages and other things we've discussed this
term, why do you think the Scotland study mentioned in this
section found a high incidence of eating disorder symptoms in
adolescents and young adults with diabetes?
EX 2 In the "'Eat More'
Message" article above in the RESOURCES, Marion Nestle says that
the larger-portion business started at exactly the same time as
what else?
EX 2 Why does Nestle think that
the food industry wants us to eat more processed food? (see
"'Eat More' Message" article)
EX 2 Does Nestle think that
good nutritional advice is complicated and hard to follow? (see
"'Eat More' Message" article)
EX 2 Marion Nestle thinks that
the cereal Fruit Loops is masquerading as cereal when it's
really what type of food? (see "'Eat More' Message" article)
At the end of the article, how much money does Nestle say is
spent each year on food marketing? (see "'Eat More' Message"
article)
EX 2 Read the "Americans Super-Sizing" article
(above in the RESOURCES). This study, covering 1977 to 1996,
found that portion sizes have increased in: (Select all that
apply.)
restaurants
homes
According to this study, Americans are
eating ______ more calories from salty snacks, such as potato
chips, pretzels and popcorn.
EX 2 Partway through the article is a section
called "Portion Distortion". This section says, "The lasting
effects of such super-sizing can be startling. An extra ____
calories per day translates to one pound gained per year,"
EX 2 Below the photo there of burgers and fries, it
says that according to one nutritionist, most fast food meals
"are not one meal -- they're _____________."
EX 2 Read the article in the
RESOURCES above about the "slim French". What do Paul Rozin and
his researchers think is the reason that obesity rates are lower
in France than in the U.S.
EX 2 Read the article in the
RESOURCES called "Hunger's Power Impairs Learning". Partway
through the article are several quotes by Dr. William Connor
of OHSU. He says
"...when people don't have certainty of food they will overeat
to build up ________ tissues to enable them to survive."
There are some ADDITIONAL LINKS
this week above in the RESOURCES. Pick one of them that
interests you and look at it. Which one did you choose?
___________________ What did you learn that was interesting or
surprising?
