1. After reading the article, please respond to the following questions in approximately 250 words. What are your immediate reactions to the article? If much of your health and disease destiny is determined in the womb, what role does nutrition have during one's lifetime? How will this information impact your diet?

Fetal Origins: How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life

http://www.aimsusa.org/library/Time - How the First 9 Months Shape the Rest of Your Life.pdf

2. Portion size me: Downsizing our consumption norms

http://www.smallplatemovement.org/doc/big_portions.pdf and take the portion distortion quiz at the following site:

http://www.medicinenet.com/food_portion_distortion_quiz/quiz.htm

After reading about the influence of portion size on food consumption and the link to obesity as well as completing the interactive quiz, in 250 words or so, describe your reactions, comments etc. and include how you might use the information that you learned in your daily life. Food guides such as the MyPlate or Harvard Healthy Eating Guide recommend portion control but consumers just don't get it. How could this information be better incorporated into food guides?