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Comprehension Quiz for “The Language of Junk Food Addiction”

Read “The Language of Junk Food Addiction” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Why is junk food addiction a problem?

Paying for junk food can take up as much as 65% of a person’s food budget.

Eating junk food is a “gate-way” to drinking alcohol.

It is easy to overeat junk food and thus to become obese.

Junk food is not nutritious.

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2. Why do salt, fat, and sugar lead people to overeat?

Salt, fat, and sugar appear to be less fattening than they are.

Salt, fat, and sugar are quickly digested.

Salt, fat, and sugar trigger the pleasure center of the brain.

Salt, fat, and sugar make one feel hungry.

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3. Besides analyzing the salt, fat, and sugar content of a potato chip, what other categories does Moss use to discuss the topic?

texture, handling, taste

price, bag size, number of chips per bag

calories, carbohydrates, gluten

types of potatoes used for chips

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4. Which of the following are not what Moss considers “layers of the chip’s appeal”?

texture

taste

handling

price

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5. What is “vanishing caloric density”?

the sensation of not eating high-calorie food when the food dissolves in one’s mouth

the result of a magic act when a solid object is made to disappear

rapid weight loss as a result of high-impact exercise

making a food less fattening when it is produced in a baked version

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