Nutritional anthropology is a synthetic concept that deals with the interplay between economic systems, nutritional status and food security, and how changes in the former affect the latter. If economic and environmental changes in a community affect access to food, food security, and dietary health, then this interplay between culture and biology is in turn connected to broader historical and economic trends associated with globalization. Nutritional status affects overall health status, work performance potential, and the overall potential for economic development (either in terms of human development or traditional western models) for any given group of people. COUNT 5
QSN1 What division of anthropology concerns itself with food security? ANS1 Nutritional QSN2 Nutritional anthropologists investigate the interplay between economic systems and what? ANS2 food security QSN3 If environmental changes in a community affect access to food, then there is an eventual connection to what? ANS3 globalization QSN4 What affects overall health status? ANS4 Nutritional status QSN5 What can having ready access to food affect the overall potential development of? ANS5 economic