1 / 27

Healthy Eating Patterns: Importance and Improvement

Learn about the importance of a healthy eating pattern and how it can lower the risk of obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers. Discover ways to improve your eating style by including more fruits and vegetables, swapping refined grains for whole grains, cooking healthier foods, and making balanced meals. Be mindful of portion sizes, choose healthier selections when eating out, and opt for healthier beverages. Develop a mindful eating pattern and savor the flavor of eating right.

chimes
Download Presentation

Healthy Eating Patterns: Importance and Improvement

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Objectives • Explain what a healthy eating pattern is and why it is important. • List the foods and drinks that a healthy eating pattern includes and limits. • Identify 3 ways to improve your eating style.

  2. What is an Eating Pattern? • According to the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans: • “Eating patterns are the combination of foods and drinks you eat over time.” • “A healthy eating pattern is adaptable to a person’s taste preferences, traditions, culture and budget.”

  3. A Healthy Eating Pattern is higher in:

  4. A Healthy Eating Pattern limits foods and drinks with: • Sodium • Added sugars • Saturated and trans fats

  5. Why is a healthy dietary pattern important? A Healthy Eating Pattern helps lower the risk of: • Obesity • Heart disease • High blood pressure • Type 2 diabetes • Some cancers

  6. What does your current eating pattern look like?

  7. Rate Your Plate

  8. Rate Your Plate (continued) Based on the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/ Visit www.eatright.org and www.ChooseMyPlate.gov for more information about MyPlate.

  9. Ways to improve your eating style: • Include more fruits and vegetables with meals and snacks.

  10. Ways to improve your eating style: • Swap whole grains in place of refined ones.

  11. Learn how to cook and prepare healthier foods. • Ways to improve your eating style:

  12. Make over your meals to include seafood twice a week and meatless or vegetarian entrees. • Ways to improve your eating style:

  13. Eat balanced meals that include the 5 food groups more often. • Ways to improve your eating style:

  14. Choose healthier selections when eating out. • Ways to improve your eating style:

  15. Be mindful of portion sizes. • Ways to improve your eating style:

  16. Eat meals as a family regularly. • Ways to improve your eating style:

  17. Choose healthier foods more often in place of foods with added sugar, solid fat, or salt. • Ways to improve your eating style:

  18. Choose healthier beverages, like milk, water, and 100% juice, in place of drinks with added sugar. • Ways to improve your eating style:

  19. Meals for this week: • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday Stop at farmer’s market • How to get started: • Have a plan! • Decide what you are going to eat in advance • Plan meals and leftovers for the week • Portion out healthy snacks Write out grocery list

  20. How to get started: • Shop with a list • Compare foods and beverages by looking at the Nutrition Facts label

  21. Be physically active most days of the week!

  22. Physical Activity • Adults should aim for a minimum of 30 minutes of moderate-intense activity 5 times per week • It can even be spread throughout the day by doing 10 minutes at a time

  23. Physical Activity • Children and adolescents should aim for 60 minutes or more daily

  24. Any questions about… ?

  25. Remember… • How, when, why and where we eat are just as important as what we eat. • Develop a mindful eating pattern that includes nutritious and flavorful foods – that's the best way to savor the flavor of eating right!

More Related