Internal Code: MAS3191 Healthcare Assignment Questions to answer about the Food and Diet Questionnaire 1. Questions 1 and 2 in the Food and Diet Questionnaire ask about shopping for food and cooking meals. How would your diet change if your answer to these questions changed? 2. ‘Questions 4 and 5 ask about your main meal. Is your answer for question 4 representative of your usual main meal location over a usual week? How would your response to question 5 change if your answer to question 4 was different? 3. Question 12 asks you to rate the importance of factors that influence your food choices. a. Pick one factor and explain why you answered the way you did and b. What evidence there is to support that this factor impacts food choice. Questions to answer about the Food Frequency Questionnaire 4. How well do you think the Food Frequency Questionnaire captured your usual dietary intake over the past month and year? 5a. According to questions 4 and 5, how many serves of vegetables and fruit do you usually eat each day? 5b. Critically evaluate your intake compared with the recommendations for your gender and age group from the Australian Dietary Guidelines 1. Questions to answer about the Likes and Dislikes Questionnaire 6a. How well do you think the Likes and Dislikes Questionnaire captured your like or dislike for foods and beverages? 6b. Did you have difficulty in deciding which response option to choose for any of the foods or beverages? Why or why not? 7. Some of the foods and beverages listed in the Likes and Dislikes Questionnaire are similar to foods and beverages listed in the Food Frequency Questionnaire. Looking at your responses to both questionnaires, do you think taste influences your food choices? Why or why not? General questions to answer 8. The Australian Health Survey 2011-2012 2 found that nearly two in every three people aged two years and over had a usual intake of sodium that exceeded the Upper Limit (UL) 1 . Intakes of sodium were also consistently higher for males than females. a. At a population level, how do you think sodium intakes could decrease so that more people are meeting, (or at least not exceeding) the recommendations 2? b. What improvements in population health do you think we would see if population-level intakes could be decreased to meet the recommendations? Use evidence to support your answer. 30 total views, 2 views today