Dietary Guidelines
Healthy Eating Patterns
Nutrition
My Plate
The 7 Essential Nutrients
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These are revised every 5 years.
What are Dietary Guidelines?
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These have increased dramatically in America over the last 100 years.
What is Portion Sizes?
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Half of the Grain you eat should be this type.
What is Whole Grain?
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These are the 5 food groups part of My Plate.
What are Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Dairy, & Protein?
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These are the 7 Essential Nutrients.
What are Fiber, Water, Vitamins, Minerals, Protein, Fat, & Carbohydrates?
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Properly balancing these is the primary factor in managing weight.
What are Calories.
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Half of your plate should consist of these.
What are Fruits & Vegetables?
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The type of fat we try to avoid by drinking 1% or non-fat milk.
What is Saturated Fat?
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These are the two primary nutrients consumed in Dairy.
What are Minerals & Protein?
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Vitamins and Minerals are known to "boost" this.
What is the Immune System?
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As part of healthy eating patterns, 6-17 year-olds should do this for 60 minutes a day.
What is Physical Exercise?
300
Use these in place of solid fats.
What are oils?
300
The daily recommended consumption of water.
What is 64oz (or eight 8oz. glasses)
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These are the two primary nutrients found in the Fruit and Vegetable food groups.
What are Vitamins & Fiber?
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This is how many calories present in a gram of Fat.
What is 9cal/gram?
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Foods that provide substantial amounts of vitamins and minerals and relatively few calories
What are Nutrient Dense foods?
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These are the three factors that determine each person's caloric needs.
What are Age, Gender, & Physical Activity?
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Too much of this in your blood has been known increase blood pressure.
What is Sodium?
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These are the two primary nutrients consumed in Grains.
What are Carbohydrates & Fiber?
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These are the three parts of a Grain.
What are the Bran, Endosperm, and Germ?
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These two unhealthy fats are more present in solid fats than in liquid fats.
What are Saturated and Trans fats?
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Reduce these five primary foods to increase health.
What are Sodium, Fats, Added Sugars, Refined Grains, & alcohol.
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This is an essential nutrient that aids in the digestive process, and has been linked in preventing Colon and other types of cancer.
What is Fiber (cellulose)?
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This is the amount of oils a 14-18 year-old should consume each day.
What are 5-6 teaspoons?
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There are 20 of these in your body, and 9 are essential to your diet because your cells cannot manufacture them.
What are Amino Acids?
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