Deck 17: Childhood Overweight and Obesity

Question 1

Food marketing strategies that target the interpersonal level of influence on children's diet:
a. In-school promotions and contracts with companies for exclusive rights to sell products
b. Supersizing promotion specials
c. Government policies such as food labeling
d. Purchase requests encouraging children to ask parents to purchase certain advertised foods)

Answer 1

Purchase requests encouraging children to ask parents to purchase certain advertised foods)

Question 2

An imbalance between the number of calories consumed and expended through physical activity is called:
a. Body mass index
b. Energy gap
c. Sedentarism
d. Overweight

Answer 2

Energy gap

Question 3

A community level organization that lends itself to intervention in childhood obesity prevention would be which of the following?
a. Television commercials aimed at youth
b. Peer groups
c. Schools
d. Centers for Disease Control

Answer 3

Schools

Question 4

Infant feeding practices is an example of a factor influencing childhood obesity at which of the following ecological levels?
a. Intrapersonal
b. Interpersonal
c. Organizational
d. Community
e. Society

Question 5

Food as a symbol of prestige can have detrimental effects on health because of which of the following?
a. Food avoidance to attain extreme thinness is viewed as desirable.
b. Food fads often encourage consumption on empty calories.
c. Foods that convey high status are also high in calories and fat.
d. Fruits and vegetables are prestigious to consume but often too expensive to purchase.