NUFD 153 Final Review Exam
Questions and Answers7
Gender (Impacts of gender on food choices for women: How do food advertisements depict
women and what does this say about gender roles? (from our reading) Definition of identity.
Use of intersectionality to understand food choices) - ANSWERS -- Impacts: women still care
more about food and nutrition. Women are more concerned with risk reduction and are less
likely to support GMOs. Men living in a household with children value locally grown, GM-free,
organically grown foods (Bellows, 2010)
- Gender roles: Food advertisements create relationship around women and food centering on:
Guilt, overindulgence, anxiety, consumption to achieve a higher class status•Presentation of
women in the media shows: Stereotypes around ways women act towards food AND how
society idealizes/sexualizes their bodies
- Identity: fluid qualities of human social self-expression
- Intersectionality: relationship between food and identity; self and food system
Nutrition transition - ANSWERS -Transforming the eating habits of better-off people in countries
such as Brazil, China, and India. Food has become more highly processes which means it is
higher in sugars and fats and low in vitamins and minerals.
Structural Adjustment Program - ANSWERS -SAPs are supposed to allow economies of
developing countries be more market-oriented. SAPs generally impliment programs which
include internal changes (notably privatization and deregulation) as well as external ones,
especially the reduction of trade barriers. Countries that fail to enact these programmes may be
subject to severe fiscal discipline. Critics argue that the financial threats to poor countries
amount to blackmail, and that poor nations have no choice but to comply. Once they take the
loan, it gets tacked on with an interest rate the farmer will never be able to pay back and then
they are trapped into a contract with the IMF or World Bank and must follow free market
policies that hurt the global south and benefit the global north but they have no choice but to
enter these programs.
, Food Deserts(Tip: characteristics, reasons these were created, AND health consequences)Food
workers - ANSWERS -Are usually in urban neighborhoods or rural towns without access to
healthy nutritious foods. Instead of supermarkets, they are serviced by fast food chains. The
people living in these areas are usually considered low income. Redlining is basically denying a
certain area the services based on race or ethnicity. Redlining is outlining an area so banks know
not to invest in those areas. Health complications that come with this are obesity, chronic
illnesses and diet-related diseases.
Food Workers (Tip: describe at least 4 characteristics) - ANSWERS -The food industry has the
highest employment rate at 21 million. The workers are also not paid by the hour, they are paid
by how much they pick. These workers are also the most insecure, seeing as they get paid the
least amount of money. Food workers are also at risk for the most injuries because of their
working conditions.
Gender (Tip: As it relates to food choice. Be sure to provide an example) - ANSWERS -The food
advertisements are designed to be targeted to either women or men. Food advertisements
create relationship around women and food centering on: Guilt, overindulgence, anxiety,
consumption to achieve a higher class status.
Dynamics of Food and Society (•Fundamental cause of hunger and food insecurity in US
•Factors causing hunger and food insecurity globally) - ANSWERS -- The fundamental cause of
hunger and food insecurity in the United States is poverty, or a lack of the adequate resources
to address basic needs such as food, shelter, and health care.
- The factors causing hunger and food insecurity globally are political, economic, and social
processes such as war,poverty, and inequality. In short, there is enough food in the world to
provide people with sufficient calories but the reason there is global food insecurity and global
hunger is due to an unequal distribution of power and therefore inequalities in who receives the
food we have.
- Of the 7.1 billion people on this planet, 870 million, or 1/8 the, suffer from chronic
undernourishment. Almost all of these people live in the global south and only a small
percentage of the hungry live in developed nations.
- The steps of the food system diagram are production, processing, distribution, consumption
and waste.
Questions and Answers7
Gender (Impacts of gender on food choices for women: How do food advertisements depict
women and what does this say about gender roles? (from our reading) Definition of identity.
Use of intersectionality to understand food choices) - ANSWERS -- Impacts: women still care
more about food and nutrition. Women are more concerned with risk reduction and are less
likely to support GMOs. Men living in a household with children value locally grown, GM-free,
organically grown foods (Bellows, 2010)
- Gender roles: Food advertisements create relationship around women and food centering on:
Guilt, overindulgence, anxiety, consumption to achieve a higher class status•Presentation of
women in the media shows: Stereotypes around ways women act towards food AND how
society idealizes/sexualizes their bodies
- Identity: fluid qualities of human social self-expression
- Intersectionality: relationship between food and identity; self and food system
Nutrition transition - ANSWERS -Transforming the eating habits of better-off people in countries
such as Brazil, China, and India. Food has become more highly processes which means it is
higher in sugars and fats and low in vitamins and minerals.
Structural Adjustment Program - ANSWERS -SAPs are supposed to allow economies of
developing countries be more market-oriented. SAPs generally impliment programs which
include internal changes (notably privatization and deregulation) as well as external ones,
especially the reduction of trade barriers. Countries that fail to enact these programmes may be
subject to severe fiscal discipline. Critics argue that the financial threats to poor countries
amount to blackmail, and that poor nations have no choice but to comply. Once they take the
loan, it gets tacked on with an interest rate the farmer will never be able to pay back and then
they are trapped into a contract with the IMF or World Bank and must follow free market
policies that hurt the global south and benefit the global north but they have no choice but to
enter these programs.
, Food Deserts(Tip: characteristics, reasons these were created, AND health consequences)Food
workers - ANSWERS -Are usually in urban neighborhoods or rural towns without access to
healthy nutritious foods. Instead of supermarkets, they are serviced by fast food chains. The
people living in these areas are usually considered low income. Redlining is basically denying a
certain area the services based on race or ethnicity. Redlining is outlining an area so banks know
not to invest in those areas. Health complications that come with this are obesity, chronic
illnesses and diet-related diseases.
Food Workers (Tip: describe at least 4 characteristics) - ANSWERS -The food industry has the
highest employment rate at 21 million. The workers are also not paid by the hour, they are paid
by how much they pick. These workers are also the most insecure, seeing as they get paid the
least amount of money. Food workers are also at risk for the most injuries because of their
working conditions.
Gender (Tip: As it relates to food choice. Be sure to provide an example) - ANSWERS -The food
advertisements are designed to be targeted to either women or men. Food advertisements
create relationship around women and food centering on: Guilt, overindulgence, anxiety,
consumption to achieve a higher class status.
Dynamics of Food and Society (•Fundamental cause of hunger and food insecurity in US
•Factors causing hunger and food insecurity globally) - ANSWERS -- The fundamental cause of
hunger and food insecurity in the United States is poverty, or a lack of the adequate resources
to address basic needs such as food, shelter, and health care.
- The factors causing hunger and food insecurity globally are political, economic, and social
processes such as war,poverty, and inequality. In short, there is enough food in the world to
provide people with sufficient calories but the reason there is global food insecurity and global
hunger is due to an unequal distribution of power and therefore inequalities in who receives the
food we have.
- Of the 7.1 billion people on this planet, 870 million, or 1/8 the, suffer from chronic
undernourishment. Almost all of these people live in the global south and only a small
percentage of the hungry live in developed nations.
- The steps of the food system diagram are production, processing, distribution, consumption
and waste.
