A Significant Shortcoming of the USDA Food Patterns and MyPlate

question 26

Multiple Choice

A significant shortcoming of the USDA Food Patterns and MyPlate is that:

• A)they assume that everyone eats the same foods in the same ways.
• B)they focus too much on whole foods,rather than prepared foods.
• C)they leave out specific activity recommendations.
• D)they cannot completely address the issue of serving sizes since no national standard exists.

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Definitions:

Utility Function

A mathematical representation that relates an individual’s consumption bundle to the level of satisfaction or utility derived from it.

Marginal Utility

The additional satisfaction or utility gained from consuming or using one more unit of a good or service.

Interest Rate

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Rule Of 70

A method used to estimate the number of years it will take for a variable to double, calculated by dividing 70 by the annual growth rate.