Healthy Eating Patterns
This U.S. government publication helps people make good food choices and is updated every 5 years.
What are the Dietary Guidelines?
These grains contain the entire kernel—bran, germ, and endosperm.
What are whole grains?
The ratio of fat, bone, and muscle that makes up your body.
What is body composition?
Your thoughts and feelings about how your body looks.
What is body image?
This ingredient is hidden in 80% of processed foods and is a major cause of the obesity crisis, according to the film.
What is sugar?
Foods that are rich in nutrients but have little or no solid fats, added sugars, or sodium are called this.
What are nutrient-dense foods?
Brown rice, oatmeal, and whole-wheat bread are examples of this type of grain.
What are whole grains?
This tool uses height and weight to see if your weight is in a healthy range.
What is BMI (Body Mass Index)?
A mental illness that causes major problems with a person's eating habits.
What is an eating disorder?
In the 1980s, food companies removed fat from products but added this to make them taste good.
What is sugar?
This USDA food guidance system looks like a place setting with five food groups.
What is MyPlate?
White bread, crackers, and couscous are examples of this type of grain.
What are refined grains?
People with this body shape store extra fat around their waist and have higher health risks.
What is apple-shaped?
This concept focuses on what your body can DO, not just how it looks.
What is body neutrality?
This part of the food label lists ingredients in order from most to least.
What is the ingredients list?
The condition where people don't get enough nutrients for health and growth.
What is undernutrition?
According to MyPlate, this food group includes milk, cheese, and yogurt.
What is the dairy?
These stylish diets promise quick weight loss but often cut out whole food groups.
What are fad diets?
This eating disorder involves severely restricting food and having very low body weight.
What is anorexia nervosa?
The film showed that the food industry spends billions of dollars doing this to influence government guidelines.
What is lobbying?
Eating too many foods with added sugar, solid fat, or too many calories leads to this type of malnutrition.
What is overnutrition?
This food group includes meat, poultry, seafood, beans, eggs, and nuts.
What are protein foods?
Eating this way means being fully focused on the present moment and really tasting your food.
What is mindful eating?
Attempts to get rid of food by vomiting or using laxatives.
What is purging?
This once rare condition now effects 57,000 children a year.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?