Health+&+Nutrition

As the old saying goes, "You are what you eat!"

Well, then, what are we. For me, I have recently changed my eating habits. My goal is to change my lifestyle of eating, not go on a "diet". What you eat can effect how you look, how you feel and even how well you sleep. After today, hopefully we will all be a bit more careful about how we "fuel" our bodies.

Directions: - all work must be completed on looseleaf - please answer in sentence form whenever possible. If you are asked to make a list, you may simply make a list. - write neatly and double-space your work - this is an individual assignment

Questions 1. Make a list of foods that you have eaten since breakfast on Friday. Please add any foods that are your favourites that you may not have had since Friday.

2. What is your favourite fast food meal?

3.Research the nutritional information for this fast food meal. Please include the [|nutritional label] information. The link will provide you a guide to what to look for. Luckily, nearly all fast food chains have sites that provide nutritional information. If the site does not have a nutritional label, use the information that it does provide to create one.

4. Now, I need you to take a look at [|Canada's Food Guide.] It is important that you read this document over and keep it open, you will be using it further in the next few questions. Please pay close attention to the serving sizes that are recommended.

5. Now, go back and compare your food consumption list from # 1 to the recommended intake from the food guide. Please put each food that you have eaten since Friday in its appropriate category. Is what you are eating meeting the daily requirements? Are you eating too much or too little of one of the food groups?

6. In a paragraph or two, please describe your current eating habits (be honest). Also, please describe any changes that you should, or would like to, make.

7. List some healthier choices that you could make at 3 of your favourite restaurants. You must list the nutritional information for these healthier choices? Are they really that much healthier?

8. What is the recommended daily caloric intake for you?

9. Create a grocery list of HEALTHY food choices. Please use Canada's Food Guide to help you make your choices.

10. Create a poster that contains a healthy "fast food" meal choice. Please make sure that the poster contains bullets or blurbs explaining why this is a healthy choice. For example, you could provide some of the nutritional information and / or explain just how much better of a choice it is than something else.