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Topic 3: Food Selection and Society

4 dot points, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

What social, cultural, economic and personal factors shape the food choices people make?

Explain the range of factors that influence food choice, including cultural, social, economic, psychological and environmental influences

Food choice is shaped by far more than nutrition: culture, family, cost, availability, marketing and personal preference all interact to determine what people actually eat.

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Why do hunger and over-nutrition exist at the same time around the world?

Examine global nutrition issues, including undernutrition, the double burden of malnutrition and the social and economic factors behind them

Globally, undernutrition and over-nutrition exist side by side. Poverty, conflict, climate and unequal food distribution drive hunger, while the nutrition transition spreads diet-related disease, creating a double burden of malnutrition.

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How do advertising, marketing and the media shape what people choose to eat?

Analyse how food marketing, advertising and the media influence food choice, including the marketing of foods to children

Marketing and the media shape food choice through advertising, packaging, placement and social media. Much of it promotes energy-dense foods, and the marketing of these foods to children is a particular concern.

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How do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander food practices relate to health, both traditionally and today?

Examine Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander food practices and the factors affecting the nutrition and health of Indigenous communities

Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander diets were varied and nutrient rich. Colonisation, dispossession and food access have since contributed to nutrition challenges that community-led programs aim to address.

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