History of Food Guidelines
What does the USDA stand for?
What is the United States Dept. of Agriculture?
The 5 food groups are
What are Fruits, Vegetables, Proteins, Grains, Dairy?
This nutrient has 2 subgroups: Simple & Complex
What are Carbohydrates?
True or False: The more colorful the food, the less nutrients it provides.
What is False?
Sugars in fruit and milk are examples of this.
This person invented the USDA and in what year?
Who is Abraham Lincoln in 1862?
This food group contains vitamins and minerals that are essential in providing us energy but also contain fiber that helps with digestion.
What are Fruits?
This nutrient helps build and repair bodily tissues, contain Amino Acids, and an excess of these are turned into fat for storage
What are Proteins?
This word is a fancy word for salt listed on Nutrition Labels.
What is Sodium?
Fiber aids with this bodily process.
What is Digestion?
The first food wheel comprised of this many food groups
What is 7?
This food group contains daily amounts of calcium to aid in our bone strength.
What is Dairy?
This nutrient helps cushion internal organs & regulate body temperature
What are Fats?
These labels are required on packaging for foods that can be consumed in one or multiple sittings.
What are Multi Labels?
Americans consume roughly 57 pounds of this a year per person.
What is Added Sugar?
In 1992, this model was created as a visual aid for nutrient adequacy and moderation prior to the modern MyPlate.
What is the Food Pyramid?
Rice and popcorn are a part of this sub group of which food group.
What are whole grains?
This nutrient comprises roughly 60% of your body, we use it to metabolize our food, and we lose it when we sweat
What is Water?
The % DV on a nutrition label stands for BLANK and what does this mean?
What is Percent Daily Value and aids consumers in seeing how much we're consuming in relation to our dietary needs?
These Calories may provide us with energy but not necessarily our daily nutrients.
What are "Empty Calories"?
In 2005, in the modern food pyramid, an additional band was added for this aspect
What is Physical Activity/Exercise?
What are vegetables?
An excess of this nutrient subgroup can cause an increase in Cholesterol and potentially lead to detrimental health issues including Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease.
What are Saturated Fats?
This can not be placed on a nutrition label due to it not being able to be defined.
What is Low Sugar?
How many calories (Cal) per gram (G) in Fats.
What is 9?