1. What does it take to be healthy?: Using Math to Answer Commonly Asked Questions About Your Health

2. Consider these statistics: Percent of noninstitutionalized adults age 20 years and over who are overweight or obese: 66.3 Percent of noninstitutionalized adults age 20 years and over who are overweight or obese: 66.3 Percent of noninstitutionalized adults age 20 years and over who are obese: 32 Percent of noninstitutionalized adults age 20 years and over who are obese: 32 Source: NHANES data on the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Adults-United States, 2003-2004 NHANES data on the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Adults-United States, 2003-2004NHANES data on the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Adults-United States, 2003-2004 Percent of adolescents age 12-19 years who are overweight: 17 Percent of adolescents age 12-19 years who are overweight: 17 Percent of children age 6-11 years who are overweight: 19 Percent of children age 6-11 years who are overweight: 19 Source: Prevalence of Overweight Among Children and Adolescents: United States, 2003-2004 Source: Prevalence of Overweight Among Children and Adolescents: United States, 2003-2004 Information taken from: Information taken from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm Information taken from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm Information taken from: (U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ) (U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Why does it seem like Americans have such a hard time maintaining a healthy weight?

3. Throughout this unit, we will answer the following questions: How do you interpret nutrition labels in order to make healthy choices? How do you maintain weight? Lose weight? Are fad diets nutritionally sound for lifetime fitness? How does the new food pyramid help you to maintain a healthy lifestyle? What is the "cost" of healthy living?

4. Follow-Up Questions Have you ever read a nutrition label before eating something? What are some benefits of doing this? What are some of the reasons why someone would want to maintain or lose weight? What are some of the fad diets you might have heard of? Do you think they work for long-term weight loss? How is the new food pyramid different from the old one? If you were to compare how much a healthy lifestyle costs to an unhealthy one, what do you think you would notice? What do we mean by cost (besides financial)?

5. In order to answer the unit questions, we will learn how to answer the following content (math) questions: What does % Daily Value mean? How do you multiply fractions by 2 to double a recipe? How do you simplify fractions? What can you purchase on a budget if you buy only healthy food? Only junk food? How do you calculate tax? What is the difference between the subtotal and the total with tax? What does price per unit mean? How do you calculate it? How do you calculate BMI and what is it? Is there a correlation between BMI and overall health? How would you graph that?