1. Daily Food Choices
By: Miss Williams

2. Objectives Identify how lifestyles influence meal patterns
Evaluate daily food choices
Understand why it is important to maintain the right weight.

3. Food & Your Life Style
Making wise food choices is becoming harder and harder
For a number of people snacks have become just as important as meals
Who wanted candy instead of fruit? Was that a wise choice as far as health goes?

4. Food & Your Life Style Cont.
People snack because they are hungry, board, tense, lonely
All food eaten whether snack or meal should nutritious

5. Daily Food Guide
Daily Food Guide- a guide compiled by nutritionist to help people make wise food choices
Divided into 5 groups:
Milk-Cheese -- Bread-Cereal
Fruit-Vegetable -- Fats- Sweets
Meat-poultry
Fish-Beans
The daily food guide list numbers and serving sizes recommended for each group
Out of the five groups which one is not needed for good health?
Can anyone guess what the first 4 groups are?
main food groups

6. Variety: Key to Nutrition
It is important to eat small amounts of a variety of foods rather than large amounts of just your favorites.
What does this mean?
This gives you a better chance of getting the nutrients each food group can supply

7. Daily Meals Morning Gets your body working
Should supply you with 1/3 of your day’s food needs
Who skips breakfast because they don’t have time to eat it?

8. Daily Meals Cont
Lunch
Should supply you with 1/3 or more of your day’s nutrition
Should be largest meal of day
How many people do you know just crab something out of the vending machine instead of a full lunch meal?
What affects can this have on that person?

9. Daily Meals Dinner Traditionally, the largest meal of the day
Should not be the heaviest meal of the day
Snack
Planned carefully
Should fit into daily food pattern
Should be healthy and not junk
Why is supper the largest meal traditionally? Why should lunch be the largest?
What is junk when it comes to snacks?

10. Weight What is your best weight?
Different cultures have their own ideas of best body weight.
What is the ideal body image in most English speaking countries?
Advertisements, movies, and fashion all promote the slim, trim look in both men and women
What does different cultures have to do with weight?

11. How much do you weigh?
Height-weight tables- developed by health experts, give a weight range for different heights.
Look on page 93 at the chart do you fall under the right weight for your height and frame size?

12. How much body fat do you have?
Pinch Test- measure amount of fat stored under the skin
To measure you body fat thickness, gently pinch your skin at the back of your upper arm with your thumb and forefinger.

13. How much body fat do you have?
One layer of body fat and skin on a person with normal weight usually measures between ¼ to ½ in.
More than an inch is a sign of over weight
Less than that is under weight

14. What's wrong with being over weight?
Over weight people die younger
Over weight people are more likely to have diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
Why would over weight people die younger?

15. Why are people over weight?
Weight is a matter of energy balance!
If you eat the same number of calories you use your weight should remain the same
If you consume more calories than you use you gain weight

16. Review Objectives Identify how lifestyles influence meal patterns
Evaluate daily food choices
Understand why it is important to maintain the right weight.

17. Assignment
Each student will make a daily meal schedule. Write what you had yesterday to eat then,
Write what you should eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
You will find help in the Food for Today book pg77-80
TURN IT IN FOR A GRADE

18. Assignment #2
Work in groups of 2 or 3 and create safety posters for the classroom kitchens . They should be well thought out and colored.
No groups can do the same!