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Guidelines for Healthy Eating Chapter 29. What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans? What are the groups on the Food Guide Pyramid? What is a standard serving size?. Is there a relationship between what you eat and how you feel?.
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Guidelines for Healthy EatingChapter 29 What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans? What are the groups on the Food Guide Pyramid? What is a standard serving size?
Is there a relationship between what you eat and how you feel? • What are some of the health problems that can result from poor eating habits? • Heart disease • High blood pressure • Stroke • Diabetes • Some forms of cancer
What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans? • Suggestions for making healthful food choices • These are for healthy people ages 2 – older. Not for infants since they have special foods needs.
Aim For Fitness Increase physical activity: adults 2 ½ hrs. per week Kids and teens 1 hr. or more each day
Activity: Brainstorm and make a list of ways for you to be more physically active. Draw a picture that will remind you of what the first guideline says.
BUILD A HEALTHY BASE Shift food intake to more plant-based diet. Reduce intake of refined grains. Increase intake of seafood and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products Consume only moderate amounts of lean meat, poultry, and eggs.
Activity: • Make a drawing for a poster that will give the student body information about the foods they should be choosing for more healthful snacking. • Be ready to share your drawing with the class. • (we will choose the best to use to make posters to hang in the hall – 6 will be chosen from the class)
Reduce intake of foods containing added sugars • Reduce intake of solid fats • Reduce sodium intake to 1,500 mg. per day • Eliminate trans-fatty acids CHOOSE SENSIBLY
Activity: • Write a Cinquain Poem • 1st line – One Word – a subject or noun • 2nd line – Two words – Adjectives – describes line one • 3rd line – Three words – Three – ing words that relate to line one • 4th line – Four Words Feeling or a complete sentence that relate to line 1 • 5th line – One Word – a Synonym of line 1