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Part 1

The Importance of Food

1 How Food AffectsLife

2 Nutritional Needs

3 Making HealthfulChoices

4 Nutrition Through theLife Cycle

5 Staying Active andManaging YourWeight

6 Safeguarding the

Familys Health7 Career Opportunities

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courtesy of National Pork Board

This sample chapter is for review purposes only. Copyright The Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. All rights reserved.

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Build Your Thinking Skills

1. Determine. Make a list of all the decisions

you make about food in one day. See if you

can determine when you have used thesteps of the decision-making process.

2. Analyze. Analyze food customs in your

community. Make a list of cultural, social,and psychological influences that affect

the foods available in local restaurants

and supermarkets. Compile your list withthose of your classmates to prepare a

bulletin board about food customs in your

community.3. Debate. Participate in a class debate on the

advantages and disadvantages of a techno-

logical development in the area of foods and

nutrition. Conduct research to help supportthe arguments of your debate team.

Apply Technology

1. Work with a small group of students to write

and videotape a commercial for a hypothet-

ical food product.The ad should includenutritional claims about the product. Show

your tape in class and ask your classmates

to critique the advertising appeal and theinformation presented.

2. Use the Tufts Nutrition Navigator Web site,

navigator.tufts.edu, to find an archived newsreport on a food or nutrition topic of interest.

Evaluate the report using the questions

listed on pages 23-24.

Using Workplace Skills

Heldia is a food technologist at Frozen

Fresh, Inc. She is helping to develop and test a

new line of high-fiber, lowfat frozen entrees. Sofar, the development process has been discour-

aging. All the entrees Heldia has tested have an

off flavor.To be an effective worker, Heldia needs skill

in applying technology to specific tasks. In a

small group, answer the following questionsabout Heldias need for and use of this skill:

A. What questions about the frozen entres

might Heldia try to answer using her skill inapplying technology?

B. How will Heldias skill in applying technology

affect Frozen Fresh, Inc.?

C. How will Heldias skill in applying technologyaffect consumers?

D. What is another skill Heldia would need inthis job? Briefly explain why this skill would

be important.

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