Prevalence of Obesity
Food
Systems
Case Studies/
Systems of Change (1)
Case Studies/
Systems of Change (2)
100

Obesity trends by 2030 (without intervention) are projected to ____ in children.

What is increase?

100

This source of nutrition given to infants is a known protector of obesity.

What is breast milk?

100

This country has the highest prevalence of obesity in both men and women.

What is the United States?

100

Alongside racism and colonialism, this determinants of health impacts childhood obesity.

What are social determinants of health?

200

Obesity tends to hit this binary gender the hardest.

What is female?

200

This agricultural resource was used to exploit Puerto Rican economy and was a contributor to their lack of healthy food governance due to colonial powers control.

What is sugarcane?

200

Globally - this is a powerful driver of research, policy regulation, implementation and enforcement with examples from Chile and Mexico.

What is data/evidence?

200

This occurs when radical change happens at critical/tipping points.

What is a phase transition?

300

Obesity prevalence among women and children impacts this many regions across the globe.

What is every/all regions?

300

Nearly this proportion of children, 6-23 months, meet recommendations of dietary diversity. 

What is ⅓ (really less than that).

300

Small entities spontaneously come together as a collective targeting certain behaviors.

What is emergent behavior?

300

SPLIT ANSWER (2 ANSWERS) Chile was able to implement these two policies, over nine years, to promote healthier consumer food behaviors.

What are 1) consumer friendly labels and  2) re-marketing products to children?

400

SPLIT ANSWER (2 ANSWERS) These level of income countries are impacted the most for both women and men.

What are 1) high income countries and 2) high middle income countries?

400

This type of tactic is used to upsell infant formula and specialized milks due to minimal regulation of the food market.

What is predatory?

400

Mexico's policy briefs to support sugar tax, Chile’s compromise with the food industry, and Argentina's dialogue with different stakeholders are considered a part of this system developed at Yale.

What are negative feedback loops (resistance) and positive feedback loops (facilitators)?

400

Chile’s use of stop signs and Ecuador's use of a traffic light system to implement the same policy that targets unhealthy foods is called this.

What is Path dependence?