What is your health IQ?
Posted on | March 22, 2011 | No Comments
Take the quiz below to see how health wise you are.
Question 1: What is aspartame?
- a) A green vegetable
- b) An ingredient to make muffins rise
- c) A natural sugar found in fruit
- d) Harmful artificial sweetener
Question 2: Choose the food that contains trans fats
- a) Tomatoes
- b) Potato salad dressing
- c) Coca cola
- d) Red wine
Question 3: Choose the healthiest option from this list
- a) Char Kway Teow
- b) Fish Head Curry
- c) Sliced fish noodle soup
- d) Chicken rice
Question 4: What is the lowest calorie alcoholic beverage in this list
- a) Red Wine
- b) Beer
- c) Cocktails
- d) White Wine
Question 5: Which one of these contains the most calories per gram?
- a) Protein
- b) Carbohydrates
- c) Fat
- d) Sodium
Question 6: Which is the healthiest drink from this list?
- a) Soda Water
- b) Tonic Water
- c) Vanilla latte
- d) Orange Juice
Question 7: How do you recognize food is high in fat?
- a) It is wrapped in paper
- b) It looks shiny
- c) It smells fatty
- d) It’s yellow in colour
Question 8: Read the ingredient list below – which ingredient is the largest portion of the product:
Ingredients in Pea & Ham Soup: Water, Green Peas, Salt, Ham, green colour E552, Additive 443
- a) Green Peas
- b) Water
- c) Salt
- d) Additive 443
Question 9: Choose the vegetable that has the least carbohydrate
- a) Corn
- b) Peas
- c) Broccoli
- d) Potato
Question 10: Choose the healthiest Japanese option from the list
- a) California handroll
- b) tempura vegetables
- c) tuna mayo rolls
- d) salmon sashimi (raw)
Question 11: What would you choose as a spread on your sandwich that contains the least fat and calories
- a) Pesto
- b) Kaya
- c) Wholegrain mustard
- d) Mayonnaise
Question 12: What is the correct portion of protein to eat per adult at meal time?
- a) Palm size / deck of cards size
- b) Clenched fist / tennis ball size (cooked)
- c) Thumb nail size
- d) As much as I want
Question 13: What is the correct portion of fat to eat per adult at meal time?
- a) Palm size / deck of cards size
- b) Clenched fist / tennis ball size (cooked)
- c) Thumb nail size
- d) As much as I want
Question 14: What is the correct portion of carbohydrate to eat per adult at meal time?
- a) Palm size / deck of cards size
- b) Clenched fist / tennis ball size (cooked)
- c) Thumb nail size
- d) As much as I want
Question 15: How do you reduce calories in sauce / gravy on your meals?
- a) Avoid creamy sauces with butter
- b) Choose mustard or red wine jus
- c) Ask for sauce/gravy on side – not on your meal
- d) All of the above
Question 16: How long will it take a 60kg person walking briskly (5km/hr) to burn off a Large Big Mac Meal (1160 calories)
- a) 6hrs 44 minutes
- b) 3 hrs 10 minutes
- c) 4 hrs 20 minutes
- d) 1 hour
Question 17: What is the average recommended daily calorie intake for adult women?
- a) 900 – 1200 calories
- b) 1500 – 1800 calories
- c) 1200 – 1500 calories
- d) 2000 calories
Question 18: What exercise will burn the most calories per minute from the list below:
- a) Horse Riding
- b) Brisk Walking
- c) Line Dancing
- d) Golf
Question 19: Choose the richest source of Omega 3 (to improve brain & heart health) from the list:
- a) Steak
- b) Flaxseed
- c) Salmon
- d) Corn
Question 20: How many glasses of water should you drink daily?
- a) 6 – 8 glasses
- b) 2 – 4 glasses
- c) 10 glasses
- d) 3 litres
How did you go? Here are the answers if you’re unsure:
Answers: 1(d), 2(b), 3(c), 4(d), 5(c), 6(a), 7(b), 8(b), 9(c), 10(d), 11(c), 12(a), 13(c), 14(b), 15(d), 16(a), 17 (c), 18 (b), 19 (c), 20(a)
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