Human Nutrition and Culture
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Course Introduction
Human Nutrition and Culture explores the complex relationship between dietary practices and the diverse cultural, social, and environmental factors that shape what people eat around the world. The course examines how food choices are influenced by traditions, beliefs, economic status, geography, religion, and globalization, and analyzes the impact of nutrition on health within various populations. By investigating both historical and contemporary perspectives, students will gain insight into how cultural attitudes toward food influence nutritional outcomes, food security, and public health policy.
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Food and Culture 7th Edition by Pamela Goyan Kittler
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Chapter 1: Food and Culture
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Q1) Your self- identity related to your role in life affects your perception of what should and should not be eaten for health.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Products produced in distant parts of the world are eaten in another country
A)Globalization
B)Modernization
C)Urbanization
D)Migration
E)Enculturation
Answer: A
Q3) Biculturation can be defined as a minority group member's identity being completely submerged in or sublimated to the dominant cultural identity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices
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Q1) Who is most likely to use complementary and alternative medicine in the U.S.?
A) middle to-upper class women
B) young men
C) the elderly
D) the poor who can't afford health care
E) executives
Answer: A
Q2) When a health care provider imposes her or his beliefs, practices, and values on a patient from another culture, what is this termed?
A) supernatural powers
B) cultural imposition
C) worldview
D) cultural inquisition
E) biomedical approach
Answer: B
Q3) The view of an individual's relationship to fate is seldom related to the perception of time.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Intercultural Communication
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Q1) Messages that demonstrate respect for the individuality of the receiver are called
A) object messages.
B) verbal messages.
C) personal messages.
D) content messages.
E) impersonal messages.
Answer: C
Q2) Which method is considered a culturally sensitive approach to collecting health-related information and a reliable method of assessment?
A) using U.S. food databases
B) having family members translate
C) direct inquiry and standardized tools
D) respondent-driven interview
E) provider-driven interview
Answer: D
Q3) Low-context cultures tend to be polychronistic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Food and Religion
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Q1) Hinduism is considered the oldest organized religion in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mormons predominate in what state?
A) Montana
B) California
C) Utah
D) Wyoming
E) Missouri
Q3) Worldwide, what religion is followed by the most people?
A) Hinduism
B) Judaism
C) Islam
D) Christianity
E) Zoroastrianism
Q4) Religion-related food habits are the least variable of culturally based food habits.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare the meat-slaughtering laws associated with halal and kashrut.
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Chapter 5: Native Americans
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Q1) In what Native American region would blue cornmeal bread be commonly eaten?
A) Plains
B) Southwest
C) Pacific Northwest
D) New England
E) Artic
Q2) The average Native American life expectancy is approximately 4.2 years greater when compared to the U.S.population.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Brunswick stew, corn pone, huckleberry honey cake
A)Northeastern
B)Southern
C)Plains
D)Southwestern
E)Northwest Coast/Alaskan Native
Q4) Pemmican is a type of jerky cake made with bison fat and berries.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the therapeutic use of corn by Native Americans.
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Chapter 6: Northern and Southern Europeans
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Q1) Among Italian Americans, one traditional custom is to serve seven seafood dishes on Christmas Eve.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Nearly all British immigrants to America were Catholic.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In France, what general categories can be used to describe the two types of cuisine?
A) cassoulets and caviar
B) haute and provincial
C) caviar and condiments
D) haute and cassoulets
E) haute and quotidian
Q4) What is the capital of Campania in southern Italy?
A) Sicily
B) Rome
C) Naples
D) Florence
E) Milan
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Chapter 7: Central Europeans - People of the Former Soviet
Union - and Scandinavians
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Q1) What is the national dish of Switzerland?
A) marinated beef roast
B) veal
C) boiled dumplings
D) fondue
E) strudel
Q2) What is something that Scandinavians are likely to avoid talking about?
A) family
B) politics
C) religion
D) money
E) illness
Q3) Gulyás
A)Germany
B)Russia
C)Hungary
D)Poland
Q4) Zakuski, meaning "small bites," is still part of Russian dinners today.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Africans
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Q1) Voodoo is a spirituality that is both African and Caribbean in origin.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the history of Africans in the U.S., the legal enslavement period began in
A) 1816.
B) 1619.
C) 1769.
D) 1517.
E) 1599.
Q3) An arid climate with mountainous plains and lowland valleys
A)West African
B)Ethiopian
C)East African
D)South African
Q4) The cuisines of East Africa consist primarily of which type of fare?
A) fried foods
B) seafood
C) beef and legumes
D) vegetarian foods
E) pork and fruit
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Chapter 9: Mexicans and Central Americans
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Q1) In the last 35 years many other cultural groups have legally immigrated to the U.S.in greater numbers than Mexicans have.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One unique Central American immigrant population in the U.S.consists of black Caribs from the eastern, coastal areas of Belize and Honduras.What term describes this population?
A) Honduran
B) Pan-Latino
C) Mayan
D) Garifuna
E) Mestizos
Q3) What Mexico-U.S.border region is thought to be the home of the chimichangas?
A) New Mexico
B) California
C) Texas
D) Sonora
E) Tijuana
Q4) Attitudes towards traditional health care in Mexico are blended from what influences?
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Chapter 10: Caribbean Islanders and South Americans
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Q1) In general, the population of the Caribbean Islands would be described as ethnically homogeneous.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Poulet rôti à la créole (a regional specialty)
A)Puerto Rico
B)Haiti
C)Argentina
D)Brazil
E)Peru and Ecuador
Q3) People from what country were the first documented South Americans to come to the U.S.?
A) Argentina
B) Peru
C) Chile
D) Venezuela
E) Brazil
Q4) Discuss the origins of candomblé and how a pai-de-santo or curendiero might diagnose and treat an illness in Brazil.
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Chapter 11: East Asians
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Q1) Often fully assimilated into the American society; their great-grandparents were the last generations born in Japan.
A)Issei
B)Nisei
C)Sansei
D)Yonsei
Q2) The rate of which disease decreases with increasing acculturation of Japanese in America?
A) cardiovascular disease
B) type 2 diabetes
C) stomach cancer
D) obesity
E) colon cancer
Q3) In Japan, rice mixed with rice vinegar is called A) pu.
B) su.
C) mocha.
D) mu.
E) kasiseki.
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Chapter 12: Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders
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Q1) What type of sauce is typical in Southeast Asia?
A) soy sauce
B) fermented fish sauce
C) aioli
D) sweet and sour sauce
E) tangy red sauce
Q2) One common characteristic shared by Pacific Islanders and Southeast Asians is that they both
A) live on similar arid plains with monsoonal rains.
B) share similar tropical climates and possibly the same ancestors.
C) share same ancestors and mountainous terrains.
D) live in same Mediterranean climates and mountainous terrains.
E) share similar cultural traditions and cuisine.
Q3) What is the typical communication style of someone from the Pacific Islands? If the client feels the counselor is being judgmental, how might this affect communication?
Q4) What is the meaning of emptying your plate versus leaving some food at the end of a meal in Southeast Asia?
Q5) Describe the traditional view of health in the Philippines.How is health maintained?
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Chapter 13: People of the Balkans and the Middle East
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Q1) Which of the following is <b>not</b> a Greek beverage with alcohol content?
A) verjuice
B) retsina
C) ouzo
D) arak
E) metaxia
Q2) Unripened wheat kernels that are dried but <b>not</b> cracked are known as what?
A) manti
B) basmati
C) fireek
D) tah dig
E) bulgur
Q3) Nearly all recently-arrived Bosnian refugees in the United States are
A) Muslim.
B) Christian.
C) Hindu.
D) Jewish.
E) Buddhist.
Q4) Are Middle Easterners high-context or low-context? How does this affect health care communications?
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Chapter 14: South Asians
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Q1) Describe the metabolic syndrome that has been identified in Asian Indians? Discuss the risk factors that may be contributing to high rates in this population.For those who follow a vegetarian diet, does this dietary practice modify their risk?
Q2) Which of the following describes Indian dating and marriages?
A) After extensive dating, arranged marriages take place.
B) Dating is typical and arranged marriages no longer take place.
C) Dating is not typical, whereas arranged marriages are typical.
D) Neither dating nor arranged marriages are typical.
E) Marriages are arranged around those who are dating.
Q3) What plant with mild amphetamine-like properties is used in Pakistan?
A) paneer
B) puris
C) khat
D) jaggery
E) betel
Q4) In communication between Asian Indian people, an evasive response is considered more polite than a direct "no" response.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Regional Americans
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Q1) What ethnic group is one of the most notable in the northern Mountain states and known for sheep ranching?
A) Mormons
B) Amish
C) Roman Catholic Italians
D) Basques
E) Mexicans
Q2) Which state is often called the "garden basket" of New York due to its numerous commercial crops?
A) Virginia
B) Florida
C) New Jersey
D) Nebraska
E) Iowa
Q3) What state is third, after California and Washington, in wine production?
A) New York
B) Washington
C) Oregon
D) Missouri
E) New Hampshire
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