Healthy Eating

1. Healthy Eating

2. List your 5 most favourite foods: • …….now share with your group…..

3. 1. What factors influenced your choices? 2. How many of your choices are associated with pleasant events?

4. Recent Research: • Social & environmental determinants of health • Get rid of “lifestyle choices” • “Make the easy choice the healthy choice” • 2.4% of Health expenditure • 39% greater incidence in obesity in children who purchase lunch at school

5. What does food mean to you? • Think of the first food that comes into your mind when you hear the following words….

6. Why do you eat? • Hungry • Bored • With friends • Happy • Worried • Sad • Lonely • Angry • Tired • Watching TV • Told it is time to eat

7. How do food choices and the meaning we place upon food affect our body shape, body size, and body image?

8. Body Image Activity • What grade level??? • What expectations could be met? • Source – Health Connection (U.S)

9. Healthy Eating Curriculum Expectations

11. Old Food Guide

13. Canada’s Food Guide

14. First Nations, Inuit & Metis Food Guide

17. What are children eating now? • According to the HBSC data (Statistics Canada)…

22. …..So what do you think??????

23. VOTING LETTERS Canada’s Food Guide recommends the following daily servings of milk products for 10-16 year old children: • 1-2 • 2-3 • 3-4 • 4-5

24. VOTING LETTERS Canada’s Food Guide recommends the following daily servings of milk products for 10-16 year old children: • 1-2 • 2-3 • 3-4 • 4-5

25. The following is defined as the addition of vitamins and minerals into food products that may have been lost during processing • Enriched • Fortified • Additives • Ingredients

26. The following is defined as the addition of vitamins and minerals into food products that may have been lost during processing • Enriched • Fortified • Additives • Ingredients

27. A paper clip weighs about this much: • 100 mg • 1 gm • 10 gm • 100 gm

28. A paper clip weighs about this much: • 100 mg • 1 gm • 10 gm • 100 gm

29. Statistics show that at any given time there are ______% of women and _____% of men are on a diet. • 40, 30 • 50, 25 • 70, 35 • 80, 30

30. Statistics show that at any given time there are ______% of women and _____% of men are on a diet. • 40, 30 • 50, 25 • 70, 35 • 80, 30

31. TRUE OR FALSE???? Most children live in a home where at least one parent is dieting. TRUE

32. Canadian children in Grades 3 and 4 say they’d rather lose a parent, get cancer, or live through a nuclear war than be fat. TRUE

33. Most models weigh about 10-15% less than the average woman in our society. FALSE

34. Anorexia Nervosa occurs in approximately 1% of adolescents, 90% of whom are female. TRUE

35. Bulimia nervosa occurs in approximately 3% of adolescents, 90% of whom are females. TRUE

36. Most of boys’ concerns about their body centre on building lean body mass and sculpting their muscles, which can lead to extreme forms of exercise and bodybuilding. TRUE

37. An increasing number of teens (mainly male) are using steroids to improve their physical appearance. TRUE

38. Adolescent steroid users are also likely to use other drugs and to share needles. TRUE

39. Beer is a good source of B vitamins. FALSE!!!!!

40. It is not what we eat that makes us put on weight but how we combine the foods we eat. FALSE

41. Where can I get some of these resources???? Ontario Physical & Health Education Association Dairy Farmers of Ontario Body Image Coalition of Peel Health Canada Discover Healthy Eating! A Teacher’s Resource Canada’s Food Guide Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion

42. Check your local Health Unit too! North Bay and District Health Unit

43. The Health Connection, Inc. 4660 Cooper Road Stockbridge, Michigan USA 49285 Fax 527-851-4692 SuNot@aol.com