SAC 4 prep

Question 1

Why is smoking targeted?

Answer 1

Smoking kills an estimated 15 000 Australians each year.
Costly to individuals and the government. Smoking costs Australia $31.5 billion in social (including health) and economic costs each year.
• Smoking affects vulnerable population groups disproportionality ,with people living outside major cities and people from Indigenous and low socioeconomic backgrounds being more likely to smoke.

Question 2

Guideline 1

Answer 2

To achieve and maintain a healthy weight, be physically active and choose amounts of nutritious food and drinks to meet your energy needs.

Question 3

Guideline 2

Answer 3

Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods from these five groups every day:
Plenty of vegetables
Fruits 
Grain (cereal) foods, 
 Lean meats and poultry
 Dairy and its alternatives

Question 4

Guideline 3

Answer 4

Limit intake of foods containing saturated fat, added salt, added sugars and alcohol.

Question 5

Guideline 4

Answer 5

Encourage, support and promote breastfeeding.

Question 6

Guideline 5

Answer 6

Care for your food; prepare and store it safely.

Question 7

What is Australian guide to healthy eating?

Answer 7

Incorporated into the Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADG) is the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating. This is a food selection tool which visually represents the proportion of the 5 food groups recommended in the daily diet.

Question 8

Effectiveness of smoking policies

Answer 8

A 10 per cent rise in price of cigarettes resulted in a 3.2 per cent decline in prevalence among low-income smokers.
In 1985, 32 per cent of Victorians were regular smokers. By 2012, this had fallen by more than half, with just 13 per cent of Victorians smoking regularly.

Question 9

What are Australian dietary guidelines?

Answer 9

The Australian dietary guidelines are guidelines developed by the federal government thatprovides advice relating to the types and amounts of foods that should be consumed.

Question 10

What do the Australian guide aim to?

Answer 10

• It aims to prevent, limit and decrease the rates of diet - related conditions (e.g. obesity ,type2 diabetes ,cardiovascular diseases ,some cancers ,etc.)and develop healthy dietary patterns that will improve health and promote wellbeing.

Question 11

What is Nutrition Australia?

Answer 11

Nutrition Australia is Australia’s non government organization , which provides scientifically based nutrition information to encourage all Australians to achieve optimal health through food variety and physical activity.

Question 12

What is healthy eating pyramid?

Answer 12

The Healthy Eating Pyramid which has been created by Nutrition Australia, is a simple visual guide to the types and proportion of foods that we should eat every day for good health.

Question 13

What is national nutrition week?

Answer 13

National Nutrition Week is Nutrition Australia’s annual healthy eating awareness campaign.

Question 14

What is Healthy Eating Advisory Service?

Answer 14

The Nutrition Australia Healthy Eating Advisory Service aims to help organizations by providing advise and
promoting healthier foods and drinks to improve the health of all Victorians.

Question 15

What is health promotion?

Answer 15

Health promotion
is the process of
enabling people to
take control over,
and improve, their
health.

Question 16

Building healthy public policy

Answer 16

Building healthy public policy refers to decisions (laws, policies) made by government and
organisations that affect health.

Question 17

Creating supportive environments

Answer 17

Create supportive environments is about making it easier for people to make healthy choices by
providing a physical and social environment that promotes health rather than detracts from it.

Question 18

Strengthening community action

Answer 18

Strengthen community action refers to involving many different groups within the community to
work towards a common goal of improving health.

Question 19

Developing personal skills

Answer 19

Developing personal skills is about providing people with the skills they need to be able to take
control of their health and make healthy choices

Question 20

Reorienting health services

Answer 20

Reorienting health services is about shifting the health system towards prevention, as opposed to
focusing on cure.

Question 21

What does the healthy eating pyramid look like?

Answer 21

it arranges foods into four layers:
•Two foundation layers containing plant-based foods (vegetables and legumes, fruit, grains) that are high in vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates (including fiber)

• A middle layer that includes dairy and its alternatives, as well as the lean meat and poultry, nuts, seeds and legumes food groups which are high in calcium and protein
• A top layer that includes mono unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, which should be consumed in small amounts.

Question 22

What is the role of Nutrition Australia?

Answer 22

1. The role of Nutrition Australia is to encourage food variety and physical activity. This is done by:
   •Acting as a source of scientific information on key nutrition issues
   •Producing and disseminating material on nutrition to policy makers, the media, educators, the food industry and consumers

Question 23

Identify five factors that present challenges in bringing about dietary change.

Answer 23

Food security
Time constraints and Convince 
Food marketing
Personal preference
health literacy