This document discusses healthy eating and diets. It encourages keeping a food diary to analyze one's own diet. It explains that a healthy diet varies between people but generally involves eating foods in moderation, including plenty of fruits and vegetables, and limiting sugary and fried foods. Developing some basic diet rules can help people make healthier choices.

1. YOU AND YOUR DIET

2. In this presentation, you will learn;
 About the types of food you eat
 What foods to avoid
 What foods to eat more of
 Why it is important to have a healthy diet

3. How Healthy Is Your Diet? - Task
On a sheet of paper, write down everything you can remember eating in the last 3 days.
You could set this out in the form of a diary.
For example
Monday
8am Cornflakes
10am Bacon Sandwich
11am Crisps
1pm Cheese Sandwich and Crisps
3pm Mars Bar
Continue your diary like this.

4. How Healthy Is Your Diet? - Task
When you have completed your list of foods for the last 3 days, find
a person you feel comfortable talking to.
Discuss some of the following questions.
What have you eaten?
Are you surprised at how much or how little you eat?
Would you describe your diet as healthy?
What could you change about your diet to make it
healthier?

5. Your Diet
The majority of people are quite surprised when they keep a food diary because
it shows them how much they actually eat.
Often, we eat without even stopping to consider what we are eating or why we
are eating it.
You might like to spend some time over the next week keeping a food diary.
Doing this will allow you to monitor how much you eat and possibly stop eating
things which are not necessary.

7. What Is A Healthy Diet?
What is a healthy diet for one person may not be as healthy
for another person.
Can you think of any reasons why this might be the case?
 Some people are allergic to certain foods
 Other people do not like the taste of certain foods
It is important to understand that, whilst we can discuss what
a healthy diet is, no two people will ever share the same
healthy diet.

9. Healthy Diets – What Do You Know?
Not everybody will agree on which foods are healthy and which are unhealthy.
In fact, none of the foods named on the previous slide are so bad for you that
you should give them up completely.
However, you should eat these things in moderation.
What does moderation mean?
To eat foods in moderation means eating sensible amounts of each.
For example, don’t eat sweets every day, but perhaps treat yourself to them
once per week.

10. Which Foods Are Healthy?
Look at the traffic lights below. Imagine the different colour lights represent food and
drink that we should and should not consume. For each colour, try to name different
types of food and drink.
One example for each has been done for you.
When you have finished, discuss your answers as a class.
Chocolate
Fruit
White bread

12. Which Foods Are Healthy?
You may have thought of many more answers of
your own.
What we now know is that whilst most foods can
be eaten in moderation, some foods are better for
us than others.
Task
Using the information you have written on your
traffic lights, try to develop a healthy school lunch
menu for your school.
This menu should be different each day and
should last for one week.

13. School Dinners
Set your menu out like the one below.
Monday
Hot Food Jacket Potato with Tuna or Beans
Cold Food Chicken Salad
Drinks Water
Desserts Banana

14. What Makes A Healthy Diet?
Now that you have looked at different aspects of food and diet, consider the following
question.
What makes a healthy diet?
Try to come up with 5 rules which make a diet healthy.
 Eat foods in moderation
 Try to vary the types of food you eat each day
 Don’t eat foods containing too much sugar
 Avoid fizzy drinks
 Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables

15. What Have We Learnt?
 Keeping a food diary is a good way of tracking exactly what we eat and drink
 Most foods can be eaten as long as they are eaten in moderation
 Some foods are better for us than others
 Having a list of diet rules helps people to eat more healthily