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Answers to Activities

Chapter 1.3 Activity 5

Activity 3 Your answer may include these items:

Your answer may include: Nutritious choices Lower nutrient foods
that should be limited to
● lack of understanding why change is needed very small amounts
● lack of confidence in the advice given by health occasionally

professionals Bread Fortified sugar-coated
● communication difficulties with language breakfast cereals

barriers and sometimes issues with literacy Breakfast cereals – Fizzy drinks
● senior members of the family being held in great fortified but not sugar
coated
respect and their views on diet having considerable
influence, which negatively affects compliance Cheese Fruit juices
with guidance given by health professionals
● negative prior experience of receiving Yogurt Fruit smoothies
inappropriate and insensitive guidance ignoring
cultural and religious beliefs. Fromage frais Chocolate

Activity 4 Fish fingers Sweets and
confectionery
Your answer may include:
Frozen vegetables Biscuits
● access to food and shops
● prices of food in accessible shops and markets Cakes
● budgeting strategies
● patterns of food choice Fast food sold with little
● social and cultural acceptability or no vegetables
● other pressures for allocation of money (e.g. rent,
Ice cream
heating, lighting, clothes/shoes for the children)
● food preferences within the household Crisps and other packet
● concerns for food waste snacks
● lack of education on benefits of healthy diet
● social support available for families (e.g. Healthy Cereal bars

Start Scheme). Activity 6

Your answer may include:

● reduced energy expenditure as it displaces more
active pastimes

● exposure to food advertising that negatively
affects nutritious food choices

● misleading food advertising confuses the
understanding of healthy eating.