Food Justice Facts
World Hunger
Fast/Junk Food
Health Issues
Random Food Facts
100
___________ is the access and right to have, eat, sell and grow healthy foods regardless of social class, race, or where you live.
Food Justice
100
What does it mean when you lack food in your stomach and it starts to growl?
Hungry
100
McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, and KFC are called?
Fast Food places
100
The typical American drinks 54 gallons of this kind of drink each year; a study in Massachusetts found that 9th and 10th grade girls who drank this were far more likely to suffer from broken bones than girls who didn’t drink any.
Soda
100
Are pumpkins a fruit or vegetable?
Fruit
200
Why is it important that all human beings have access to healthy food?
Not having access to healthy foods can lead to diseases such as Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease, some kinds of Cancer.
200
What continent is most hungry?
Asia
200
How many hamburgers do you think McDonald’s sells every second?
75 hamburgers
200
Corn is subsidized by the government, making it extremely cheap. The abundance of this corn product has contributed to the rise of Obesity and Type II Diabetes. 530 million bushels of corn are made into 17.5 billion pounds of this corn product.
High Fructose Corn Syrup
200
These urban neighborhoods, where mostly low-income and people of color live, are called ______ because people have little or no access to fresh, whole food; rather they are surrounded only by corner stores that sell "junk" and processed food and sometimes fast food restaurants.
Food Deserts
300
The goal of the food justice movement is for all people to have access to healthy food which means: fresh, nutritious, and _____.
Affordable
300
In the whole entire world how many people do you think are hungry? (Hint: There are 7 billion people in the world)
795 million people
300
The size of soda portions rising over the years, has cause a much higher risk to kids who consume soda. Kids having type 2 diabetes lose between 17 and 26 years of their life expectancy. In the 1950's, the most soda you could get in a fast food restaurant was an 8 ounce size. Now, the largest soda you can get in a fast food restaurant, which has 310 calories and almost 30 teaspoons of sugar, is ...
A 32 ounce soda
300
Among African American and Latino children in the United States, approximately one out of two will develop Type 2 Diabetes because of their unhealthy diet. Shortening their life span by approximately this many years.
21 years
300
One fast food hamburger can contain how many different cows?
100 different cows
400
Approximately, how long do you think it will take you to get to Whole Foods by car from CCPA? (Hint: It takes 14-15 minutes to get to the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center from CCPA and from The KPOMC to Whole Foods it takes 5 minutes)
16-18 minutes
400
Which of the following is a cause of hunger. A) Poverty B) Harmful economic system C) Climate change D) All of the above
D) All of the above
400
Very few Americans eat whole foods in their original state. Americans spend over 1 trillion dollars each year on food. This percentage of money is spent on processed foods such as packaged food, “junk food”, fast food, and unhealthy “food”.
90%
400
If a beverage has 20 grams of sugar per serving and 3 servings per bottle, how many grams of sugar are in the whole bottle??
60 grams of sugar
400
What color Fruit Loop tastes the most fruitiest?
None, they all taste the same.
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