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What is Canada's Food Guide?
100
This food group includes: canned peaches, frozen peas, and fresh apples.
Recommended servings for teens are 7 for females, and 8 for males.
What are Vegetables and Fruits?
100
1. Eat at least one dark green and one orange blank everyday.
2. Choose blank and blank prepared with little or no added fat, sugar, or salt.
3. Have blank and blank more often than juice.
What are tips for eating Veggies and Fruits?
100
Found under your forehead.
Center of reasoning, planning, some parts of speech, movement (motor cortex), emotions, and problem solving.
Does not finish developing until about 20 years of age.
What is the frontal lobe?
100
Unlike regular body (somatic) cells, these brain cells do not regenerate. When they die, they are gone forever.
What are neurons?
200
Canada's Food Guide uses this word to describe the recommended PORTION of food a person should be eating of each of the four food groups.
What is a serving?
200
This food group includes: bagels, tortillas, and pitas.
Recommended serving for teens are 6 for females and 7 for males.
What are Grain products?
200
1. Make at least half of your blank products whole grain each day.
2. Choose blank products that are lower in fat, sugar, or salt.
What are tips to eating Grain Products?
200
These 'brain cells' are mostly all present at birth. However as the brain continues to develop, their mass increases because of the creation of new synapses (learning) between these cells.
What are neurons?
200
Increases in cerebral blood flow, cognitive abilities, positive effect on neurotransmitters, and mood enhancement are all affected by this.
What is exercise?
300
Between one cup to a half of a cup is the relative size.
What is approximately one Food Guide serving?
300
This food group contains: fortified soy beverages, yogurt, and cheese.
Recommended servings for teens are 3-4 for females and males.
What are Milk and Alternatives?
300
1. Drink Skim, 1%, or 2% blank each day.
2. Drink fortified soy beverages if you do not drink milk.
3. Select lower fat blank alternatives.
What are tips for drinking Milk and Alternatives?
300
This process occurs (around age 11-12 for boys and girls), to nerve connections (synapses), when they are not used or reinforced.
*If you don't use it, you lose it*
What is nerve pruning?
300
Brains are more active during this activity, than they are when we are awake.
What is sleep?
400
The type of food you eat is as important as the blank that you eat.
What is amount?
400
This food group includes: eggs, peanut butter, cooked beans, shellfish, and lean meat.
Recommended servings for teens are 2 for females and 3 for males.
What are Meat and Alternatives?
400
1. Eat beans, lentils, and tofu often.
2. Eat at least two Food Guide Servings of fish each week.
3. Select lean blank and blank prepared with little or no added fat or salt.
What are tips for eating Meats and Alternatives?
400
This part of the brain develops quickly and is where emotions are centered. Many teens rely on this center before the frontal cortex is fully developed.
What is the Amygdala?
400
If your blood gets overdosed with sugar because you consumed too much blank this can slow your brain down. If you want to have full mental capacity, you must have a balanced diet.
What is glucose?
500
Although Miss. F did not cover this component of healthy living, it is just as important as healthy eating. Hint: it's something you have a class for almost everyday.
What is exercise?
500
Although not a food group, these two liquids are essential to a healthy diet. They can be made of canola, olive and soybean products.
What are oils and fats?
500
These two drinks are highly recommended by Health Canada to quench thirst, instead of high sugar alternatives like pop or sugary juice.
What are water and milk?
500
These are the three main 'ingredients' the brain needs to function properly.
What are glucose, water, and oxygen?
500
This is like a computer with one really big difference. You can back up all the information on your computer and if it crashes you can restore all the information. Well we do not have a restore button. Once the neurons in our brains that held a particular memory or knew how to speak are gone, we can't get them back.