‘Sweet As You Like’ Trivia

Life is sweetest when you know the right health and nutrition facts to live a healthy life-style.

Take this quick quiz to see how much you know, and how much sweeter your life-style can be!

Your score shows you know what to do to lead a pretty healthy life-style.

Just make sure you do them!

1. It is good to keep blood glucose (sugar) levels within the normal range because:

	You reduce the risk of developing lifestyle diseases.
	You will develop diabetes.
	You will be able to eat chocolate whenever you like.
	You will not ever have to exercise again.

2. The GI or glycemic index is important because:

	It gives us a greater understanding of how a food will affect our blood glucose levels.
	It helps us to plan healthy eating, including low GI foods.
	It helps us understand how to keep blood glucose within the normal range.
	All of the above.

3. For healthy, long-term weight loss you should:

	Go on as many fad diets as you like.
	Eat complex carbohydrates, trim fat and skip breakfast.
	Exercise, eat a balanced diet and always eat breakfast.
	Eat whatever you like at meal times, but no snacks.

4. The Glycemic Load is:

	A load of rubbish.
	A new fad diet.
	A way to compare the effect of a food (the GI and the total carbohydrate) on our blood glucose levels.
	An exercise plan to combine with low GI meals.

5. A great way to maintain portion control is:

	Super-size all your meals (not just some of them).
	Divide fish and meat into portions when you bring home your shopping.
	Always eat an entrée or a desert with your main when dining out.
	Always empty your plate.

6. Balanced, healthy eating is achieved:

	By carbohydrate counting alone.
	By exercise.
	By only eating low GI foods.
	By eating a variety of foods from the core food groups, including some low GI foods.

7. High GI foods:

	Are foods with a GI over 70.
	Raise blood glucose levels quite dramatically.
	Include white bread, crumpets, baked potato and watermelon.
	All of the above.

8. Low GI foods:

	Break down slowly in digestion, to keep you satisfied for longer.
	Include porridge, pasta, baked beans and sweet potato.
	Are foods with a GI less than 55.
	All of the above.

9. Fad Diets are:

	A healthy way to lose lots of weight.
	A healthy way to lose weight and keep it off.
	Great because you don't need to exercise.
	Potentially dangerous and not recommended healthy long-term weight loss.

10. A great way to manage your sugar intake is:

	Eat as many cakes as you like.
	Eat lots of chocolate and drink lots of water.
	Choosing foods high in sugar whenever possible.
	Use Equal in place of sugar to sweeten your favourite beverages and in cooking.

11. In Australia the amount of people overweight or obese is:

12. Tests have shown that Equal:

	Can help to assist weight loss in a low energy diet.
	Can make you grow taller.
	Can be used to stimulate hair growth in bald people.
	Is useful for learning aqua aerobics.

13. To reduce the risks of cardiovascular disease you should:

	Maintain an ideal body weight.
	Do moderate exercise at least one hour most days.
	Eat a diet low in fat and high in legumes, fruit and vegetables and whole grains.
	All of the above.

14. If you have diabetes you can:

	Have as much sugar in your diet as you like.
	Use Equal instead of sugar to sweeten your favourite drinks and cereals.
	Eat anything and everything that tastes delicious.
	Forget about worrying about being overweight.

15. Equal is:

	Great way of getting the sweetness of sugar without the unwanted calories of sugar
	Really easy to use in drinks and recipes.
	Very useful for people with diabetes, or anyone trying to control their blood sugar levels.
	All of the above.