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1  Please read the board!  Test on Wed/Thursday!

2  Write a question/comment on the sticky note.

3  Peter Menzel (2005)  How many people in the family?  Food types:  Fresh? Processed? Preserved? Variety?  What types of technologies were used to produce these foods?  What are the chances these food items were grown locally?

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13  Meat-centered: meat is main course of every meal  processed foods!  Refined grains and sugars  Over-cooked vegetables  Many convenience foods or “fast food”  High fat, salt and sugar contents  Lacking in whole vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains

14  Packaged  Chopped  Precooked  Preserved  Flavors added

15  Whole food  processed  Example:  Your example:

16 The less healthy it is!

17  More calories More calories  Bigger portion sizes – Check the label!  More sugar – Check the label!  More dietary fat  Increase in eating out – How many times did you eat cooked food from home last week?

18  In these areas, people may get their food from:  Gas stations  Convenience stores  Fast food outlets

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22  Hypertension- high-blood pressure, can be worsened by over-intake of salt  Heart Disease- gradual malfunctioning of heart due to accumulation of cholesterol from animal and vegetable fats in arteries  Leading cause of death in U.S. and U.K.

23  Diabetes- high blood sugar, malfunctioning of pancreas. Can lead to blindness, loss of feet/limbs.  Obesity- excess body that may have an adverse effect on health, reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems

24 Why is the unhealthy stuff so much cheaper???

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26  assistance paid to a business or economic sector  Most subsidies are made by the government to producers or distributors to prevent the decline of that industry  Crops subsidized in the U.S.:  Corn, rice, wheat, milk, soybeans, sugar, tobacco, cotton

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28  Corn, wheat, soy and rice…60% of human food supply

29  Cheap corn = lots of corn!  Broken down in lab into lots of chemicals used in food.  Subsidies make the unhealthy food cheap.

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31  Mexico – 32.8% obesity (US 31.8%)  Mexicans drink an average of 43 gal coke/person/year  9.2% of Mexican children have diabetes  New tax on junk food and soda– 1 peso/L coke

32  Describe the modern Western (American) diet.  Name two heath effects of the Western diet.  Why is the unhealthy food so cheap?


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