Exercise Your Options

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Exercise Your Options

• Lunch At The Mall
• (Lesson Three)

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Lunch At The Mall

• Objectives/Main Ideas
• Students will be able to
• Compare Contrast meal choices at the mall.
• List every day objects to help describe portion
  size equivalents.

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Lunch At The Mall

• Todays lesson will help you learn that
  exercising smart food choices at home and away
  from home includes selecting a variety of
  food-group foods and being aware of how much you
  are actually eating.

Lets take a look at some of the choices that
Gabe, Megan and Sarah have made.
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What Are My Options?
Tell me what you think the video was about? Three
students making choices about what they are going
to eat for lunch at the mall.
Lets take look at what each student chose.

• Gabe chose teriyaki chicken, rice,
  vegetables. 1 portion from 3 of the food
  groups.
• Megan - chose chicken, salad, yogurt parfait
  1 portion from 3 of the food groups.
• Sarah chose a jumbo-sized hamburger, jumbo
  sized bun, jumbo-sized soda, jumbo-sized french
  fries, and a desert.
• Jumbo-sized portions often contain enough fat and
  calories for more than one person.

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Healthy Portion Sizes
REMEMBER A portion size represents a healthy
amount of a particular food to eat in a single
meal or snack.

• Example of healthy portions
• Meat the size of a deck of cards
• Pasta the size of half a tennis ball
• Vegetables the size of a softball
• Cheese- the size of 3 dice

If it says Jumbo or Super, it is more than a
single size portion and therefore unhealthy.
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Summary
What do you think were the main health concepts
that were dramatized by the students and
addressed by the expert?
Its a myth that good tasting, healthy food
choices arent available at malls and other
fast-food restaurants.

• Now, lets see if you can make some smart food
  choices of your own. Turn to page 7.