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Food & Nutrition
- 2. Energy ■ Your body needs energy to move every day ■ Where does your body get it’s nutrition from?
- 3. FOOD!
- 4. Food ■ There are so many foods! ■ How do we group them together?
- 5. Canada's New Food Guide The Canada Food Guide emphasizes the importance of healthy eating and physical exercise. Following the Guide can help reduce the risk of obesity and disease.
- 6. Follow your doctor’s advice! ■All of this information is general information, not medical advice. Always follow your doctor’s advice and ask if you have questions especially if you have a medical condition or special diet.
- 7. Have Plenty of Fruits and Vegetables
- 8. Eat Protein Foods ■ You can get protein from a variety of healthy foods like: Beans, lentils and peas Seafood Meat Nuts Eggs Greek yogurt
- 9. Choose Whole Grain Foods ■ Any food made from wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley or another cereal grain is a grain product. ■ Some examples of grain products are: Bread, pasta, oatmeal, breakfast cereals, and tortillas.
- 10. Make Water Your Drink of Choice • Drink water instead of sugary drinks.
- 11. Be Mindful of Your Eating Habits ■ Take time to eat ■ Notice when you are hungry and when you are full.
- 12. Cook More Often ■ Plan what you eat. ■ Involve others in planning and preparing meals.
- 13. Enjoy Your Food ■ Culture and food traditions can be part of healthy eating. ■ Celebrate the food you’re eating.
- 14. Eat Meals with Others ■ Enjoy meals with friends and family.
- 15. Use Food Labels ■ .
- 16. Limit Foods High in Sodium, Sugars, or Saturated Fat
- 17. Be Aware of Food Marketing ■ Look at flyers and ads for restaurants. Do they appeal to the instant gratification monkey or the rational decision maker? ■ Look at healthy food. Does it look good too?
- 18. EatWell. LiveWell. Canada’s Food Guide water whole fruit protein vegetables 1. Make ___________________ your drink of choice. 2. Have lots of ____________________________ and ____________________. 3. Choose ________________ grain foods. 4. Eat _____________________ foods.
- 19. aware salt fat enjoy labels others often sugars mindful 5. Eat meals with ____________________________ . 6. ____________________ your food. 7. Use food __________________________ . 8. Have less food that is high in sodium (_____________), ___________________, and saturated ________________.
- 20. aware salt fat enjoy labels others often sugars mindful 9. Be _______________________ of food marketing. 10. Be ______________________ of your eating habits. 11. Cook more ______________________.
- 21. Fabulous Foods ■ How many tasty foods do you know? ■ Make a list of sweet, salty, sour and bitter foods Sweet Salty Sour Bitter Cake PotatoChips Lemon Coffee
- 22. Food Antonyms ■ Antonyms are words that mean the OPPOSITE ■ Write the antonym for the food words: 1. Sweet - Salty 2. Hot - Cold
- 23. Food Riddles ■ Think about a food you enjoy eating ■ Make a riddle card about your food ■ Write 3 clues about the food – What food group does it belong to? – Where can it be found/Where does it grow? – How it looks or tastes?
- 24. Riddle ■ I am a fruit. ■ I grow in hot countries. ■ I have a greenish/yellowish shell and yellow fruit ■ A PINEAPPLE!
- 25. Riddle ■ I am a vegetable ■ I grow around the world. ■ I am long and green. My outside is a dark green and my inside is a light green. I have seeds and am watery. ■ You might eat me with ranch dressing. ■ CUCUMBER!
- 26. Riddle ■ I am a grain. ■ I am made in bakeries. ■ You can cut me in half and put jam, peanut butter, cream cheese or butter on me. ■ I have a hole in the middle of me. ■ A BAGEL!
- 27. Food Riddles ■ Think about a food you enjoy eating ■ Make a riddle card about your food ■ Write 3 clues about the food – What food group does it belong to? – Where can it be found/Where does it grow? – How it looks or tastes?