1. Nutrition Guidelines
Chapter 4

2. Tools for Planning a Healthful Diet
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs)
Set of nutrient reference values.
Recommended Dietary Allowances(RDAs)
Planning tools that suggest levels of nutrient intake to meet needs.
Estimated Average Requirement(EAR)
Nutrient recommendation
Adequate Intake(AI)
Research for nutrients
Upper Tolerable Intake Level(UL)
Maximum level at which a nutrient is unlikely to cause harm.

3. The Food Guide Pyramid Mypyramid.gov
Tells you how you should be eating and at every meal.
Calorie count for age and weight and physical activity.
Servings sizes

4. Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Aim for Fitness
Healthy weight and physically active everyday
Build a Healthy Base
Pyramid choose your foods.
Variety of grains and fruits and veggies everyday.
Food safe to eat
Choose Sensibly
Diet that is low in saturated fat and cholesterol.
Moderate intake of sugars
Alcohol in moderation

5. Using Food Recommendations and Guidelines
Food Diaries:
Help keep you healthy and on track
Helps you see your eating habits and what you may want to change.
Analyze your diet:
What are your nutrient needs?
How many calories do you need?
Plan using the pyramid

6. Activity
Survey people at this school (teachers or students), ask them how well they follow the Dietary Guidelines.
What is their favorite food to eat?
What is their favorite healthy food to eat?
Use a rating scale from 1-10.
We will then as a class put this all on one big chart
NEXT, we are going to plan a meal and cook using the food guide pyramid.