Foods
These grains are better for you than refined grains.
What are whole grains?
Students were taught with the food pyramid that they could have 11 servings of this, but it failed to identify healthy vs unhealthy forms it takes.
What are grains?
In general, young people are becoming MORE or LESS active?
What is LESS active?
This is an example of sugar "hiding in plain site."
What are sodas, ice cream, candy, and sugar bags?
These are three examples of healthy proteins.
What are poultry, fish, and nuts/seeds?
This is the federal govt agency that creates food guidelines.
What is the US dept of agriculture?
He was one of the earliest advocates of health education.
Who is Ben Franklin?
Ketchup, bologna, spaghetti sauce, soy milk, fish sticks, peanut butter, and sports drinks are examples of this.
What are places where sugars are hidden?
This is an example of a healthy plant oil that can help lower cholesterol.
What is olive, safflower, and/or sunflower oil?
(Must provide ONE)
Some leading nutrition experts believe these also have influence in shaping recommendations.
Food manufacturers, food producers, and special industry groups (like the meat & dairy lobby)
These are some of the benefits of regular exercise.
What are feeling happy, having a positive body image, self confident, good self esteem, lower risk of health problems like diabetes?
Sugar has 56 of these.
What are aliases (where sugar hides under various names)?
Fructose from sugar is processed in this part of the body.
What is the liver?
This replaced the food pyramid.
What is my plate?
These are the six skill components of physical fitness.
What are speed, agility, balance, coordination, reaction time, and power?
Fresh fruit contains fructose, but is naturally occuring and doesn't cause an overload to the body because of this.
What is the fiber in fruit (which slows the absorption)?
Eating too much red meat has been linked to this.
What is diabetes, heart disease, and cancers?
This is what the my plate looks like.
What has half a plate of fruits & veggies, dairy is pushed to the side, and no mention of oils & sweets?
These are the five essential elements of fitness.
What are cardiovascular endurance (stamina), body composition (fat vs lean body), flexibility (range of movement), muscular strength (force produced), muscular endurance (over time).
This is the recommendation from the world health organization for sugar grams in a day.
What is 25 grams of sugar?