This guide promotes choosing various foods from the food groups and eating the recommended number of servings to help your body get the nutrients it needs.
What is Canada's Guide to Healthy Eating?
100
Making this a part of our daily life helps us to keep healthy.
What is physical activity/exercise?
100
This is the mental picture that people have of their bodies and how they think others see them.
What is body image?
100
This is the confidence and satisfaction a person has in themself.
What is self-esteem?
100
During a growth spurt, a boy or a girl may gain this before or after their height changes.
What is their weight?
200
This process can be slowed or even stunted if children's energy or calorie needs are not met.
What is growth?
200
When being active it's important to consume enough of this.
What is water/fluids?
200
This type of body shape or size does not exist.
What is perfect/ideal?
200
Encouraging people to stop focusing on individual parts of this can increase self-esteem.
What is the body?
200
Physical activity and this are important in maintaining a healthy body weight.
What is healthy eating?
300
This form of media uses celebrities, contests, and colorful pictures to influence eating habits.
What are advertisements/commercials?
300
This is the number of days per week that a person should be physically active.
What is seven?
300
This is the unrealistic body shape for boys and men often portrayed by the media.
What is muscular/slim/macho/"buff"?
300
This is the way people feel about their bodies when they have healthy self-esteem.
What is positive/confident/happy/good?
300
This is a stage in life when body proportions change a lot.
What is adolescence/puberty?
400
When these types of foods are eaten in moderation, they can be part of healthy eating.
What are "sometimes" or "Other" foods?
400
The main goal of physical activity should not be to lose weight or build this.
What is muscle?
400
When someone has this type of body image, they may develop an eating disorder or even die.
What is negative/unhealthy/poor/bad?
400
Self-esteem is shaped by these significant people in one's life.
Who are parents/teachers/coaches/friends/peers/adults/brothers/sisters?
400
Due to this factor, some children and their families gain or lose weight more easily.
What is heredity/genetics?
500
This is what is needed for taking part in regular physical activity and you get it by eating healthy foods. (Also known as the body's energy!)
What are calories?
500
Daily physical activity reduces your chances of disease or failure of this major organ in your body.
What is the heart?
500
When someone feels good about their eating habits, they are more likely to feel this way about their body.
What is confident/happy/positive/good?
500
You can build healthy self-esteem by taking part in this.
What is exercise/physical activity/healthy eating/extra-curricular activities?
500
This is the type of unhealthy body size many North American movie stars and magazine models have.