Are Vegetables Good for Your Health? (13 min) + Assignment

For this assignment, we are going to watch a mini-lecture (13 min) by anthropologist Emily Yates-Doerr about her research about diets and weight/obesity in Guatemala. The lecture is relatively brief, but covers a lot of ideas, so you may want to watch it twice. The questions should help you get the most out of it.

STEP 1: Watch

Click on the link to watch the mini-lecture by Emily Yates-Doerr called, Are vegetables good for your health?

https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/64044/student/301914?task=4

STEP 2: Write your Answers

Please write answers in sentence form.

1. What are some of the contradictions in nutrition advice people in the Guatemalan highlands are receiving?
2. What are some of the problems with using American-based nutritional guidance for people in the Guatemalan highlands?
3. In general, why don’t universal nutritional standards work?
4. What action (intervention) has Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr taken with her research findings?
5. How does an anthropological view of health differ from a biomedical view of health (such as the concept of health underlying nutrition science)?
6. Please share anything else you thought was interesting about the lecture.

STEP 3: Submit your Answers

Submit your answers by clicking the blue, "Take The Quiz" button below and copying your answers into the box. Although I am using the "quiz" feature for this, it is not a quiz. This is just an assignment. Do your best, but I'm not grading you on getting the right answer; you will be graded based on your sincere attempt to answer the questions and showing that you have read/watched the information, even if you didn't understand all of it.

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STEP 5: Check Answers

After you submit your answers, click on Attempt 1 in your attempt history. You should then be able to see the correct answers to the questions. This information is meant to help you affirm that you were on the right track in understanding the information or, if not, fill gaps in your understanding. You will only be able to see the answers once, so take any notes that you want to.