EXSS 180 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
What is the single greatest source of added sugar in the American diet? - Answer-Sugar
Sweetened Beverages (Coke, not pepsi)
What are food deserts? - Answer-Places where individuals don't have access to healthy
food (usually poor areas)
How much should children (6-17) exercise? - Answer-1 hour every day of moderate or
vigorous, vigorous at least 3 days a week, muscle/bone strength at least 3 days a week
How much should adults (18-64) exercise? - Answer-2hr 30min of moderate aerobic
exercise or 1 hr 15 min of vigorous aerobic activity per week, or an equivalent combo
PLUS muscle strength at least 2 days a week
Kinesiologist/ Our Class Definition of PA - Answer-intentional, voluntary movement
directed toward achieving an identifiable goal
In what years did we see an increase in obesity - Answer-Saw increase in 1970s but
went through the roof in the 1980s and 1990s
Who is Kelly Brownell? - Answer-Director of Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at
Yale
CDC definition of PA - Answer-any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle that
increases energy expenditure above a basal level
Surgeon General Definition of PA - Answer-movement that substantially increases
energy expenditure
Percentage of overweight Kindergarten who were obese in 8th grade - Answer-1/3
Name of the largest funder of work on childhood obesity - Answer-Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
US Obesity Rate - Answer-34%
Percent of Obese Children - Answer-1/3
ANSWERS GRADED A+
What is the single greatest source of added sugar in the American diet? - Answer-Sugar
Sweetened Beverages (Coke, not pepsi)
What are food deserts? - Answer-Places where individuals don't have access to healthy
food (usually poor areas)
How much should children (6-17) exercise? - Answer-1 hour every day of moderate or
vigorous, vigorous at least 3 days a week, muscle/bone strength at least 3 days a week
How much should adults (18-64) exercise? - Answer-2hr 30min of moderate aerobic
exercise or 1 hr 15 min of vigorous aerobic activity per week, or an equivalent combo
PLUS muscle strength at least 2 days a week
Kinesiologist/ Our Class Definition of PA - Answer-intentional, voluntary movement
directed toward achieving an identifiable goal
In what years did we see an increase in obesity - Answer-Saw increase in 1970s but
went through the roof in the 1980s and 1990s
Who is Kelly Brownell? - Answer-Director of Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at
Yale
CDC definition of PA - Answer-any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle that
increases energy expenditure above a basal level
Surgeon General Definition of PA - Answer-movement that substantially increases
energy expenditure
Percentage of overweight Kindergarten who were obese in 8th grade - Answer-1/3
Name of the largest funder of work on childhood obesity - Answer-Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
US Obesity Rate - Answer-34%
Percent of Obese Children - Answer-1/3
