Healthy Living
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 Food Guide to Healthy Eating?
a quantity of food capable of producing such an amount of energy
What is calories?
Making this a part of our daily life helps to keep us healthy.
What is physical activity/excercise?
the sugars, starches and fibers found in fruits, grains, vegetables and milk products
What are carbohydrates?
When being active it is important to consume enough of this.
What is water?
provide structure, regulate body processes, transport materials throughout your body, help your immune system and act as a source of energy.
What are proteins?
The process of providing the food necessary for health and growth.
What is Nutrition?
transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms.
What is processed food?
This is needed for taking part in regular physical activity and you get it by eating healthy foods
What is energy/calories?
Vegetables and Fruit, Milk and Alternatives, Meat and Alternatives, and Grains
What are the 4 food guide catergories?