Foods for living

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Foods for living

• Prepared by Elaine Rodrigues
• A nutrition lesson for 5th grade students

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What is food?

• Food is energy
• Food is tasty
• Food builds a healthy body

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The food guide pyramid

• Click on the button for link of multicultural
  food guides.(Click on other food guide
  pyramids)
• The food guide pyramid has 5 food groups.
• Every food group should be eaten in different
  amounts
• Fats and sugar should be eaten sparingly, and do
  not have serving sizes.

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What you have to do

• Get a piece of paper and pencil and draw a
  pyramid.

• Or click on the button to print the pyramid.
• Fill in the pyramid with the different foods. Put
  them into their groups.

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Where does this go?

• BREAD.
• How many servings a day, and where does it fit in
  the pyramid?

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Where does this go?

• VEGETABLES.
• How many servings a day, and where do they fit in
  the pyramid?

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Where does this go?

• FRUIT.
• How many servings a day, and where does it fit in
  the pyramid?

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Where does this go?

• MEAT.
• How many servings a day, and where does it fit in
  the pyramid?

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Where does this go?

• MILK/DAIRY.
• How many servings a day and where does it fit in
  the pyramid?

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Where does this go?

• SWEETS.
• How many servings per day, and where does it fit
  in the pyramid?

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How did you do?

• Lets keep going so we can check your answers.

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Answers
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References

• The food guide pyramid (pictures)
  www.nal.usda.gov8001/py/pmap.htm
• Multicultural food guides http//www.nal.usda.gov/
  fnic/etext/00002
• Kids food guide http//www.kidfood.org/f_pyramid/p
  yramid.html

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Pyramid