Healthy Habits
This is a behavior that supports your health when you practice it regularly.
healthy habit
These are substances in food that your body needs to grow, have energy, and stay healthy.
What are nutrients
This is a choice that supports your health, safety, and well-being.
What is a healthy choice
This area of health focuses on how well your body functions and how you take care of it.
What is physical health
Apples, bananas, strawberries, and oranges belong to this MyPlate food group.
What are fruits
Getting enough sleep, drinking water, being active, and eating nutritious foods are examples of these.
healthy habits
This nutrient helps build and repair muscles and other body tissues.
What is protein
Before making a health decision, thinking about what could happen because of your choice means thinking about these.
What are consequences
This area of health includes your thoughts and feelings.
What is mental/emotional health
Broccoli, carrots, spinach, and peppers belong to this MyPlate food group
What are vegetables
These make healthy behaviors easier to remember and repeat each day.
What are routines
Your body uses these nutrients from food to help provide energy for daily activities.
What are carbohydrates
This type of information helps you make informed health decisions
What is accurate health information
This area of health focuses on how you interact with and build relationships with other people.
What is social health
Rice, oatmeal, bread, and pasta belong to this MyPlate food group.
What are grains
A student drinks water, gets enough sleep, and eats nutritious foods every day. These repeated behaviors can eventually become these.
What are habits?
Vitamins and minerals are important because they help your body perform these kinds of functions.
What are important body functions
When you are unsure about an important health decision, this person can provide information, perspective, and support.
What is a trusted adult
Physical, mental/emotional, and social are the three main areas of this.
What is health
Eggs, beans, fish, chicken, and meat belong to this MyPlate food group.
What are protein foods
Repeated small choices can become healthy habits and affect a person's health over this period of time.
What is the long term?
Eating a variety of foods is important because different foods provide different amounts and types of these.
What are nutrients?
Using accurate information, considering consequences, and choosing an action that supports your well-being is this skill.
What is healthy decision-making
When a student exercises, manages stress, and builds positive relationships, they are supporting these three areas together.
What are physical, mental/emotional, and social health
A meal contains rice, chicken, broccoli, and an apple. The meal already includes grains, protein, vegetables, and fruits. According to MyPlate, the missing food group is this.
What is dairy
Wage how much you want.
A student wants to build a balanced meal. Their plate has chicken, brown rice, broccoli, and strawberries. They want to use what they learned about MyPlate to complete the meal.
What is dairy, because the meal does not yet include the dairy food group