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Please answer the following questions. Each of your answers should be at least one to two paragraphs. Using outside resources is encouraged, and sources must be cited.

1. What are TWO Scandinavian cooking and food processing methods that reflect traditional food preservation methods? Please describe the methods of preserving foods and give examples. Have you tried any of these foods, and what was your experience?
2. What are TWO historical influences on Armenian cuisine? How do these influences relate to Armenia's history and geography?
3. What is the name for the traditional spirituality of the Gypsies? What does it suggest about associations between Gypsies and non-Gypsies?
4. How did the political relations between the FSU and the U.S. affect Russian acculturation? How does this relationship impact Russian foods in the US?
5. Describe, in detail, the THREE waves of immigration from Russia to the U.S.
6. Where do Roma people who live in the United States come from and what do they share?
7. The breakup of the FSU also created major changes in the foods available to the countries that once comprised the USSR. Due to this, epidemiological research on this area has produced interesting results. In the past, many more fruits and vegetables were available in the countries of Eastern Europe due to the huge territory with which the USSR traded. Since then, heart disease rates skyrocketed in Hungary and Czechoslovakia after the breakup. Fruit and vegetable intake was reduced, and the diet became very monotonous for many during the economic hard times that followed. There were other changes in society as well, including changes in health care and daily stress levels. Of interest, from 1990 to 2000, heart disease rates declined slightly (World Health Organization). However, fruit and vegetable intake is still considered to be low and FSU Americans may be at risk of developing CVD and other conditions associated with a high-fat items (red meats, processed meats, and dairy products) popular in their traditional cultures.

The question of interest is still being studied-how has the decreased rates of fruit and vegetable intake affected health and illness in the countries of the FSU? What would you recommend, from a public health perspective, to help improve fruit and vegetable intake for families who have immigrated to the United States? Remember to consider potential barriers, such as cost and access.