Guidelines for Healthful Eating
Choosing Food Wisely
Reading a Food Label
Safely Managing Weight
100

Food group in the MyPlate plan that includes pasta, bread, and oats

What is the Grains group?

100

A desire for food that is based on emotional factors

What is appetite?

100

The amount of a product manufacturers recommended for consumers to eat in one sitting/at one time/ in one day.

What is serving size?

100

Popular diet that may help individuals lose weight in the short term but not in the long term- and only lead to a temporary weight loss

What is a fad diet?

200

Meal plan that differs based on the food people eat

What is the MyPlate Plan?

200
Date on pre-packaged food that tells consumers the last date the product can be sold

What is a sell-by date?

200
The number associated with the amount of energy gained from one serving of a specific product

What are calories?

200

Term used for how much body fat versus muscle and bone in the body

What is body composition?

300

This health behavior helps balance the calories you take in with the calories you burn.

What is exercising regularly?

300

A need for food based on physical discomfort and lack of energy

What is hunger?

300
One word health claim that means one serving of a particular food contains 50% less fat
What is light?
300

Health risk of being underweight that has to do with lack of iron in the body

What is anemia?

400
What meals during the day do you have the opportunity to get your values of the food groups in the My Plate plan?

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks

400

Recommendations for the average person for daily intake of certain nutrients

What are Daily Values?

400

Statements that link the use of a food to certain health risks or benefits

What are health and nutrient claims?

400

Calculating factor/equation that does not play a role in determining a person's weight

(Hint: not heredity, activity level, or body composition)

What is Body Mass Index?

500

Document that provides information on how to handle food safely, make smart food choices, balance food and physical activity, and get the most nutrition out of the calories you consume.

What is the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?

500

Factor that has a major impact on what people choose to eat- based on immediately accessible/easy to prepare foods

What is time/convenience?

500
Budgeting information that is NOT required on Food Labels

What is price?

500
General measure of time that is the best way to lose weight, so that the body has time to adjust to changes made in schedule and in the body itself
What is gradually, over time?