Students learned that in 1996, the World Food Summit pledged to reduce hunger and that now, attention is being given to _____.
a. increasing physical activity
b. decreasing food costs
c. increasing fiber intake
d. increasing access to safe water
e. decreasing the prevalence of infectious disease among young children
Q. 2One key strategy that students identify to reduce deaths related to malnutrition in infants and young children is to increase rates of _____.
a. vitamin A supplements given to infants
b. iron-fortified formula given to infants
c. breastfeeding
d. food supplements given to infants
e. fortified grain intake
Q. 3Several students in Professor Thompson's class also discover that as countries undergo nutritional transition, the rate of _____ increases.
a. HIV/AIDS
b. iron deficiency
c. infectious diseases
d. obesity
e. iodine deficiency
Q. 4Most of Professor Thompson's students find that people become malnourished or starve for a number of reasons. Which of these are particularly prevalent?
a. poverty only
b. racism only
c. food-borne illnesses only
d. poverty and racism
e. poverty and food-borne illnesses
Q. 5Students reported that over _____ million people in the world are infected with HIV.
a. 5
b. 12
c. 21
d. 30
e. 38
Q. 6The famine in Somalia that led to the death of over 1.5 million people was due to _____.
a. collapse of the government
b. poverty
c. a natural disaster
d. low agricultural productivity
e. inequitable distribution of food
Q. 7The 1996 World Food Summit ended with a pledge that by 2015, developing countries would reduce the prevalence of _____ to 13.5.
a. underweight
b. poverty
c. undernutrition
d. HIV/AIDS
e. obesity
Q. 8Women and female children are at particular risk for malnutrition in some societies due to _____.
a. poverty
b. low agricultural productivity
c. lack of access to safe water
d. cultural practices which call for food to be allocated to men and boys first
e. lack of access to protein sources
Q. 9The cause of _____ is unclear.
a. kwashiorkor
b. pellagra
c. beriberi
d. marasmus
e. PKU
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