Quiz shows were one way Loma Linda University Health shared its story with attendees at the 2015 General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, held in San Antonio July 2–11.
The questions covered health, research and history topics in relation to Loma Linda University Health.
Last Thursday’s issue of News of the Week included a sampling of the questions. Here are the answers, noted in bold:
Question: Which of these provided the most income for Loma Linda in 1910?
A. The bakery
B. The Sanitarium
C. Water rights
The convenience and quality of the bakery goods made them very popular — and their sale generated an impressive gain. The bakery earned more than twice as much as the Sanitarium.
Question: An ambitious new research program at Loma Linda University Health will attempt to do something new in the history of medicine. Which is it?
A. Make healthy ice cream from turnips
B. Define health at the cellular level
C. Train rattlesnakes not to bite
Loma Linda University Health researchers will define what health looks like at the cellular and molecular levels. Most biomedical research has focused on what causes disease, but the idea of what health looks like is an entirely new way of phrasing the question.
Question: In the findings of the Adventist Health Study-1, which of the following did not decrease the risk of colon cancer?
A. Eating red meat
B. Eating legumes
C. Eating fruit (fiber)
While eating legumes and fruit decreased the risk of colon cancer by up to 40 percent, eating red meat actually increased the risk of colon cancer by as much as 60 percent. All three diet factors suggested that a vegetarian diet decreased colon cancer risk.
Question: The LLU School of Dentistry has been graduating doctors of dental surgery for how many years?
A. 38 years
B. 48 years
C. 58 years
The school was first established in 1953, with the first graduating doctor in 1957.
Question: The language center of most right-handed adults is located:
A. On the left side of the brain
B. In the frontal lobe
C. On the right side of the brain
Most areas of speech processing develop in the second year of life in the dominant half of the brain, which often corresponds to the opposite of the dominant hand.