Part 1
• Pick a meal: breakfast, lunch, dinner
• Describe what you ate
• Talk about why you ate what you did -- what factors influenced your eating choices?
• Do any current nutritional fads, promotions, or diet claims influence your choice of foods? If yes, talk more about these sources of influence. If no, talk about what does influence your nutritional/food choices.
Part 2
Watch this TED Talk about food and happiness
https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce
• After watching Maccolm Gladwell's TED Talk and reading from your text and other materials in Module 3, will you to consider changing the way you will make nutritional choices? If yes, why? If no, why not? Provide specific examples from the video, other materials, websites, and text to support/describe your answers.
• Finally, what do you think is the biggest problem area in the nutrition/food industry in the United States?
Sample Solution