You are what you eat!

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You are what you eat!
L/O - To what makes a balanced diet
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Look at the food diaries. What do you think they
are missing?
How do you think you could improve this diet?
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Food Diary 2 Breakfast No breakfast
Lunch Green salad Apple Orange Water Dinner
Rice Vegetable curry Water
Food Diary 1 Breakfast Peanut butter on toast
Chocolate Milk Lunch 2 bags of crisps 1 slice
of pizza Lemonade Dinner Fish fingers Chips
Ice-cream Coke
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Food Diary 3 Breakfast Boiled egg on brown
toast Apple Glass of milk Lunch Brown bread
Cheese and salad sandwich Orange Water Dinner
Spaghetti Bolognaise Fruit Salad Water
Food Diary 4 Breakfast Cereal and Milk 2
packets of skittles on the way to school Lunch 1
packet of crisps Cheese and pickle wrap 2
cookies Slush puppy Snickers bar Dinner
Sweet and sour chicken and rice Chocolate
ice-cream Toffee popcorn when watching film
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What does a balanced diet look like?
For a balanced diet we should eat all of these
nutrients (although the amount we should eat for
each may be different)
Which of these should you eat the most of and
least of?

• Carbohydrates
• Proteins
• Fats
• Minerals
• Vitamins
• Fibre
• Water

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Click on the link to play the interactive game
and find out what makes a balanced diet and why
this is important to your health and well
being http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/sc
ience/organisms_behaviour_health/diet_drugs/activi
ty.shtml
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Nutrient How the body uses it Food sources it is contained in
Carbohydrate To provide energy Cereals bread pasta potatoes (sugars and starch)
Protein For growth, making new cells and repair of our bodies Fish meat eggs dairy products
Fat To provide energy, as a store of energy for insulation Butter oil nuts
Minerals Needed in small amounts to maintain health Salt milk (calcium) liver (iron)
Vitamins Needed in small amounts to maintain health Dairy foods fruit vegetables
Fibre To provide roughage to help keep food passing through the gut Vegetables bran wholemeal bread
Water Needed by cells and for body fluids Fruit juice milk water(!)














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So what have you eaten in the last 24 hours?
Do you think this is a balanced diet?How could
you improve it?