AMS 055 A02 Facilitation Week 7

Question 1

How is obesity determined?

Accepted Answer

BMI

Question 2

What does healthism promote?

Accepted Answer

That health is a personal moral responsibility

Question 3

When one is considered “unhealthy”, who is the fault generally given to?

Accepted Answer

Individual

Question 4

What does the concept of “moralized class hierarchies” refer to in discussion of nutrition?

Accepted Answer

Eating “right” is used to judge people’s worth and class

Question 5

How can USDA’s advice be conflicting (choose the one discussed in class)?

Accepted Answer

Their goals: giving advice/supporting agriculture can have opposite ideals

Question 6

What does it mean to say that nutrition is socially constructed?

Accepted Answer

It is shaped by cultural, political, and institutional values

Question 7

Dietary ideals are separable from social concerns, aims, and values

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

The identity of the upper middle class is created between

Accepted Answer

Healthy Self and Obese other

Question 9

What may be healthy for one person is also healthy for the next person.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

What biology factors can be blamed for obesity?

Accepted Answer

Genetics, prenatal, and disabilities

Question 11

What is Atwater’s rule?

Accepted Answer

Choose foods that provide the most energy at the least possible cost

Question 12

How can we become better consumers of dietary advice?

Accepted Answer

Be “informed consumers”

Question 13

What is one consequence of moralization of food?

Accepted Answer

People are judged as “good” or bad” based on what they eat

Question 14

Nutrition is always both…

Accepted Answer

Empirical and ethical

Question 15

What is often not considered when calculating BMI?

Accepted Answer

Bone density

Question 16

What is the key critique of the “obesogenic environment” frame?

Accepted Answer

It still blames individuals for navigating harmful environment

Question 17

What contributes to what is socially considered "healthy eating"?

Accepted Answer

Corporate interests, science, and politics

Question 18

How has fatness been historically tied to racism and colonialism?

Accepted Answer

By framing certain bodies as undisciplined or excessive to white

Question 19

Why of the following is NOT considered part of the origins of anti-fatness?

Accepted Answer

Sexism

Question 20

Dietary ideals express ideals of good…

Accepted Answer

Citizenship

Question 21

The sole reason Bob’s obese is because his parents are obese, is this a true statement?

Accepted Answer

No, correlation doesn't equal causation

Question 22

When you restrict your diet, your metabolism slows down

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

With enough effort, any fat person can become thin–it’s simply about burning more calories than you consume (B=M, R=F)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

BMI is a good way to determine obesity

Accepted Answer

False

AMS 055 A02 Facilitation Week 7

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AMS 055 A02 Facilitation Week 7

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