Healthful Eating video quiz

A steady diet of red meat, dairy products, artificially sweetened and processed food with few vegetables, grains, and fresh fruit can result in:

• cardiovascular disease

• exposure to illness-causing bacteria

• increased risk of some cancers

• all the above

Popular foods are mostly made up of

• animal-based ingredients

• plant-based ingredients

Generally speaking, each person world-wide consumes 43 kg (or 95 lbs) of meat. On average, each America eats

• less

• more

• about the same

World-wide, more than 11 million land animals are slaughtered for food every

• minute

• hour

• day

• month

To meet the demand for food, how many farmed animals are raised globally every year?

• 100 million

• 5 billion

• 50 billion

• 100 billion

To meet this demand, modern farms are overcrowded and unsanitary.

• True

• False

As a result of overuse of antibiotics, bacteria has become less resistant to them.

• True

• False

Today more fish are grown in aquaculture (aka fish farms) than are caught in the ocean.

• True

• False

According to the World Heath Organization, about how many people each year become sick due to eating contaminated food?

• 1 in 100

• 1 in 50

• 1 in 10

• 1 in 5

Zoonotic diseases, which are passed from animals to humans, include all of the following EXCEPT:

• Austrian flu

• COVID-19

• mad cow disease

• ebola

• swine flu