Food, Culture & Public Health
This term describes neighborhoods with limited access to affordable healthy food.
What is a food desert?
Fast food is often placed in these areas due to high foot traffic and lower rent costs.
What are low-income neighborhoods?
The main staple food consumed globally that provides most of the world’s calories.
What is rice?
This macronutrient is the body's main source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
Michelle Obama launched this initiative aimed at reducing childhood obesity.
What is Let’s Move?
This government benefit program helps families buy groceries but often does not fully solve access to fresh produce.
What is SNAP?
Companies target children with bright mascots and toys. This is known as consumer what?
What is consumer conditioning?
Countries that rely on one major crop for export can face this crisis when crop yields fall.
What is food insecurity?
This vitamin is essential for calcium absorption and bone health.
What is Vitamin D?
This act established national school lunch nutrition standards.
What is the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act?
Diets high in processed sugar and low in whole foods increase risk of this chronic disease common in Black communities.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
This ingredient is added to foods to increase cravings and create repeat customers.
What is sodium?
This global event in 2020 exposed how fragile the global food supply chain is.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
Diets high in saturated fats are linked to this cardiovascular condition.
What is high cholesterol / heart disease?
Farmers' markets, community gardens, and urban farming programs help build this type of food system.
What is a community-based food system?
This term highlights how cultural identity influences diet and must be respected when promoting healthy eating.
What are cultural foodways?
Research shows Black youth are disproportionately targeted by ads for this type of food.
What is sugary and fast food?
This term refers to promoting environmentally sustainable farming that does not damage soil long-term.
What is sustainable agriculture?
This hormone helps regulate blood sugar and is produced in the pancreas.
What is insulin?
This civil rights leader encouraged community empowerment, including food justice in Black neighborhoods.
Who is Malcolm X?
The idea that housing policy, school zoning, and market placement shape food access refers to this structural concept.
What is structural nutrition inequity?
The concept that food companies shape customer habits and normalize unhealthy diets is known as what?
What is corporate food influence?
Large agricultural corporations owning most farmland is known as what type of farming system?
What is industrial agriculture?
Chronic low intake of iron can lead to this condition common among menstruating women.
What is anemia?
The movement to reclaim traditional Black and Indigenous food knowledge is known as what?
What is food sovereignty?