WorksheetsChildhood Obesity: Reversing the Epidemic Quiz
Total questions: 4
Worksheet time: 2mins
What is the author’s central claim about how to solve the obesity epidemic?
Americans need to quit eating foods that are harmful to their health.
Americans need to live in environments that better encourage healthy activities.
Americans need to develop greater awareness of recommended weights and BMI.
Americans need to improve their understanding of the risks of unhealthy behaviors.
Select the two sentences from the text that best support the author’s central claim.
Children should be having fun and playing in safe neighborhoods that provide parks, recreational facilities, community centers, and walking and bike paths. (paragraph 4)
Schools should also require daily physical education classes, as well as recess. (paragraph 4)
As Surgeon General, I want America to become a healthy and fit Nation. (paragraph 5)
People want to live long and to live well, and they’re making their voices heard across this Nation. (paragraph 6)
Today’s obesity epidemic calls for committed, compassionate citizens to mobilize and to demand the health and well-being that they so richly deserve. (paragraph 7)
The author claims that solving the obesity epidemic will require innovative, or new and groundbreaking, solutions. Which sentence from the text that provides the most innovative solution.
For example, healthy foods should be affordable and accessible to all Americans in our diverse communities.
Children should spend less time in front of the TV. Research shows that—the correlation between time watching TV and weight gain.
Children should be having fun and playing in safe neighborhoods that provide parks, recreational facilities, community centers, and walking and bike paths. Schools need to serve healthy food and set higher nutrition standards.
Employers should implement wellness programs that promote healthy eating in cafeterias, encourage physical activity through group classes, and create incentives for employees to participate.
In paragraph 6, how does the author’s description of the “old normal” help support her argument?
by illustrating a basic contrast between her proposed approaches to health with those of the past
by addressing possible objections about whether her approaches to health will be as realistic as those of the past
by developing concluding reasons for adopting her approaches to health rather than continuing those of the past
by providing additional evidence supporting the idea that her approaches to health are superior to those of the past
