A Community Nutritionist Needs to Collect Data on Food Intake

question 34

Multiple Choice

A community nutritionist needs to collect data on food intake from clients. Which of the following would he use to obtain an estimate of typical food intakes of a small number of people?

• A) Food diary
• B) Food frequency questionnaire
• C) 24-hour recall
• D) Usual intake record
• E) Food frequency questionnaire and 24-hour recall

---

Definitions:

Price Takers

Entities in a market that accept the prevailing prices for its goods or services, having no power to influence the market price.

Demand Curves

A graphical representation of the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded by consumers, typically downward sloping, indicating that demand decreases as price increases.

Supply Curve

The Supply Curve is a graphical representation showing the relationship between the price of a good or service and the quantity of that good or service that a supplier is willing and able to supply.

Marginal Cost Curve

A graph that shows the cost of producing one more unit of a good or service at each level of production.