Multiple Choice
"Losing weight/being more healthy" ranks where on the list of most popular New Years resolutions?
a) 1st
b) 2nd
c) 3rd
d) 4th
What is a) 1st?
The technologies and techniques that monitor and control human social and biological processes
What is biopower?
This TikTok diet involves eating only animal derived products (and salt for electrolytes)
What is the carnivore diet?
Name one of the three categories of food with daily intake reccomendations in the 2026 USDA nutrition guidelines graphic
Protein, dairy, and healthy fats; vegetables and fruits; whole grains
Surplus government cheese is stored in caves underneath this US city
What is Springfield, Missouri?
What percentage of people in the US are considered overweight or obese?
a) 1/2
b) 2/3
c) 3/4
d) none of the above
What is b) 2/3?
The administration of human life
What is biopolitics?
This TikTok trend is a really good way to get listeria
What is drinking raw milk?
This product is heavily subsidised by the USDA and had such a large surplus at one point that it was given out in assistance programs, leading to the phrase "government ____"
What is cheese?
A recent TikTok involved HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and Kid Rock drinking this beverage in a hot tub in jeans
What is whole milk?
What percentage of millenials say they are dissatisfied with their body and that they could be healthier?
a) 75%
b) 77%
c) 80%
d) 83%
Something that promotes weight gain and prevents weight loss could be described using this adjective
What is obesogenic?
A trend that went viral a few years ago, reccomended mixing this into your water
What is chorophyll?
Focault defines power in modern society as no longer the sort of sovereign power that coerces people by force, including the threat of death, but this:
What is "the ability to influence life by making people do things on their own will"?
The idea that humans are genetically predisposed to store as much fat as possible is known as:
a) the thrifty gene hypothesis
b) the hunger resistance hypothesis
c) the fat stores hypothesis
d) the ancestral gene hypothesis
What is a) the thrifty gene hypothesis?
The idea that the body is materially constituted within political, economic, and social structures.
What is the political ecology of the body?
Which of the following is NOT a real product?
a) protein soda
b) protein cheetos
c) protein seasoning
d) protein water
What is b) protein cheetos
According to Food Geographies, about half of food advertising is directed at what demographic?
What is children?
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a hegemonic nutrition framework?
a) the food-body relationship can be stabilized through the energy balance model and measured quantitatively through BMI
b) expert knowledge is privileged over other forms of embodied knowledge about food and health
c) diets should be tailored to an individual's health needs
d) we can reduce nutrition to calories and nutrients
What is c) diets should be tailored to an individual's health needs?
The idea that individuals have a responsibility to take care of themselves and control their weight for the social good
What is biocitizenship?
Doctors and instructions for use reccomend against doing this trend with your pre-workout powder
What is dry scooping?
This "Bill", renewed every four years, governs food and agriculutral policy in the US and is a target of agrifood corporation lobbyists
What is the Farm Bill?