Social Nutrition / EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER

Social Nutrition Examination Paper
Answer FOUR questions

1) Define culture and explain how this can influence people’s food choice at different stages of their life.

Food culture is very complex and is affected by a wide range of factors. These include family needs and food

preferences, cultural and religious background, values, attitudes and beliefs related to food, and food advertising. Food choices are also determined by how much money is available to buy food, facilities in the home, access to shops and skills in food preparation and cooking. Food habits and attitudes to foods develop at an early age and often reflect those of parents, caregivers and significant adults.

2) What evidence is there that food poverty exists in the UK ? Describe the groups of people in the UK who are at greatest risk of experiencing food poverty and explain why this might influence their health.

Food poverty can be defined as the inability to obtain healthy affordable food. This may be because people lack shops in their area or have trouble reaching them. Other factors influencing food access are the availability of a range of healthy goods in local shops, income, transport, fear of crime, knowledge about what constitutes a healthy diet, and the skills to create healthy meals. Due to this complex mix of factors, people on low incomes have the lowest intakes of fruit and vegetables and are far more likely to suffer from diet-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity and coronary heart disease. Food poverty can also be about an overabundance of “junk” food as well as a lack of healthy food.

3) Write short notes on THREE of the following and explain how they influence food availability or food choice:

a) Soil erosion and desertification:
Conventional agriculture contributes to erosion by overusing synthetic pesticides.

b) Global warming:
Consumers can have a major influence on the market and global warming by making better food choices.

c) Pesticides
Organic foods are produced without the use of synthetic pesticides.

4) Describe the food choice of hunter gatherers and explain how this differs from the food choice of peasant agriculturists.
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lost my mind..

Ok! That's my picture of the day.. maybe appears strange, because I have always my mind in the same place.. but what's happen today? I don't know, how can I explain.. Well.. I'm really confuse with CCtv's and all this stuff..
tomorrow, I will post my new draft and hope I can find my mind again..
see you guys..

CCTV, have a nice smile please!

Let me talk about the film ‘Enemy of State’ which was an American movie. The film told the audience that the population could be surveyed by a unit of the government with using high-tech satellite technology, CCTV, and etc..

‘Enemy of the State’ has a lot of good things going for it: Will Smith made an excellent performance. The cinematography is brilliant and the use of the satellite perspective to film scenes makes the surveillance aspect of the film extremely realistic. Movies like Enemy of the State stop and make you think. I'd like to share comments of the movie about the abilities of the government to monitor every aspect of your life saying, "it can't be possible" or "they wouldn't do that." But I think the technology to do all the things depicted in the film isn't too far from being deployed for routine use (after all, I can, on the world wide web, see a satellite image of the building I research in). Big Brother is indeed watching. Fortunately, like in the film, technology that enables surveillance to have an extraordinary reach also enables the average person to avoid surveillance to unsurpassed levels (especially considering the incompetency of government in general). It makes it all the more imperative that people do not let their freedoms to use anonymity and strong encryption and protect their privacy be abridged: that is what will provide a defence in our future.

I want to tell you about ANPR (Automatic number plate recognition) and AFR (3D automatic face recognition). The ANPR was invented in 1976 at the Police Scientific Development Branch in the UK. And, once CCTV linked up with ANPR and AFR, and people who are locked that their every single move will be monitored and recorded by the police or other units, including the rout of your driving and walking and how many times you are going to rest room. As you know, CCTV works seven twenty-four, never rest. Is it amazing? Or, is it crazy?

Incidentally, the country that has the most advanced tech of CCTV and ANPR of the world is UK. Britain becomes the first country in which every journey of every vehicle is monitored and recorded in 2006. And London is the number one of the amount of CCTV in the world.

Would you please have a sweet smile when you meet CCTV in London!


Vocabulary of the day..

(to) criticize someone for (doing) something

an invasion of privacy

(to be) obsessed with (doing) something

in the north/south/east/west of somewhere

something is hard to believe

Seminar 2 / Self-reflection

Hello,

I think, Today the seminar was very beneficial for all participants. I shared my experience related with the ideas of others. The most important part of this seminar gave practice in leading a discussion of privacy invasion. Also, My group had a clear outline about the topic, I kept the time to talk my opinion, I have opened up discussion with good questioning technique, and I summarised the discussion at appropriate stages.
On balance, my group have concluded the seminar effectively.