Ch 7 Meeting Your Nutritional Needs

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Ch 7 Meeting Your Nutritional Needs
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RDA?

• Recommended Dietary Allowances
• What you need to eat that will meet the needs of
  almost all healthy people

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Food Labels

• Have serving size, calories, and daily values,
  and ingredient
• list

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My Pyramid
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Food Pyramid

• A food guide to help you choose what to eat and
  how much to eat every day.

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My Plate
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• MyPlate illustrates the five food groups that are
  the building blocks for a healthy diet using a
  familiar imagea place setting for a meal. Before
  you eat, think about what goes on your plate or
  in your cup or bowl.

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Choose a Food Group

• 1 Fruits - Focus on fruits.
• 2. Vegetables - Vary your veggies.
• 3. Grains - Make at least half your grains
  whole.
• 4. Protein Foods - Go lean with protein.
• 5. Dairy - Get your calcium-rich foods.

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The Peoples Garden

• THE PEOPLE'S GARDEN INITIATIVE is an effort by
  the United States Department of Agriculture
  (USDA) which challenges its employees to
  establish People's Gardens at USDA facilities
  worldwide or help communities create gardens.
  People's Gardens vary in size and type, but all
  have a common purpose - to help the community
  they're within and the environment.

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Gardens

• Community gardens unite neighborhoods in a common
  effort and inspire simple solutions to some of
  the most persistent issues plaguing our country
  from hunger to the environment

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Choosing A Healthful Diet

• Nutrient Density measure of nutrients in a food
  compared with the energy the food provides.
• Example Candy tastes good but it provides few
  nutrients for the amount of calories it contains.
• It provides empty calories

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Nutrition For Life

• Start when you are young to develop good habits.
• The more active you are the more food you will
  need.
• Teens experience major growth spurts and your
  body needs more energy, protein vitamins, and
  minerals.
• Adults the number of calories decreases to
  maintain a healthy weight.

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Special Needs

• Athletes need extra energy and water to maintain
  their performance and endurance.
• Diet high in carbohydrates and vitamin B to
  provide quick energy
• Diet high in proteins

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Whats For Dinner?

• Record what you ate yesterday.
• Compare what you ate to the recommendations of
  the My Pyramid food Guide.
• Draw a plate to represent the foods that you ate.
  Use the same colors used in the My Pyramid
  symbol orange(grains), green (veggies), red
  (fruits), yellow (oils), blue (milk), purple
  (meat,beans)

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Reflect

• What food group did you miss?
• What can you do to help you eat from each food
  group?
• Was it easier for you to use the pyramid or the
  plate?
• How does your plate compare with the pyramid?
• Pg 178 in textbook