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What You Will Do

Identify the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Identify the role of the Food Guide Pyramid and the Nutrition Facts panel in a healthful eating plan.

Analyze a meal by calculating its percentage of calories that come from the various food groups.

Explain how to develop healthful eating habits.

Identify ways to keep food safe.

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Terms to Know

Food Guide Pyramid

Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI)

Nutrition Facts panel

foodborne illnesses

cross-contamination

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The Foods You Eat

Foods that are good for you can also taste good.

There are easy-to-use tools that can help you determine if your food choices are nutritious.

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Dietary Guideline for Americans:

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans identifies ten guidelines for healthy-eating and living, the ABCs of good health:

A im for fitness

Build a healthy base

Choose sensibly

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Dietary Guideline for Americans:

Aim for fitnessAim for a healthy weight.Be physically active each day.

Build a healthy baseLet the Food Guide Pyramid guide your food choices.Choose a variety of grains daily, especially whole grain.Choose a variety of fruits and vegetables daily.Keep food safe to eat.

Choose sensiblyChoose a diet that is low in saturated fat and cholesterol and moderate in total fat.Choose beverages and foods to moderate your intake of sugars.Choose and prepare foods with less salt.Avoid alcoholic beverages.

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Food Guide Pyramid

A visual guide to help make healthful food

choices.

Term to KnowThe Foods You Eat

The Food Guide Pyramid shows a range of servings for the different food groups you need to eat each day to achieve and maintain good health.

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The Food Guide Pyramid

The recommendations in the Food Guide Pyramid are based on Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI).

Dietary Reference

Intakes (DRI)

Daily nutrient recommendations for healthy people of both genders and different age

groups.

Term to Know

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The Food Guide Pyramid

This Pyramid is referred to in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Meat and Beans Group2–3 servings

Fats, Oils, and SweetsUse sparingly.

Milk Group3–4 servings for teens2–3 servings for adults

Vegetable Group3–5 servings

Grains Group6–11 servings

Fruit Group2–4 servings

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The Food Guide Pyramid

For good nutrition:

Try to stay within serving ranges for each food group.

Eat at least the minimum number of servings to get enough nutrients.

Control portion sizes. When you feel full, stop eating.

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Nutrition Facts

By reading the Nutrition Facts panel, you can compare different food products, make wise choices, and get an idea of what and how much you are consuming.

Nutrition Facts panel

Provides a thumbnail

analysis of a food’s calories

and nutrient content for one

serving.

Term to Know

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Developing Healthful Eating Habits

Good nutrition comes from an eating plan that has variety, moderation, and balance.

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Developing Healthful Eating Habits

Breakfast is important for these reasons:

Breakfast replenishes your body’s energy supply. Breakfast replenishes your body’s energy supply.

Breakfast improves your physical and mental performance.Breakfast improves your physical and mental performance.

Breakfast is important for maintaining a healthy weight.Breakfast is important for maintaining a healthy weight.

Breakfast may help you avoid overeating later in the day.Breakfast may help you avoid overeating later in the day.

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Developing Healthful Eating Habits

A healthful eating plan includes nutritious snacks that provide extra energy and nutrients.

When choosing snacks, select whole-grain products, fruits, and vegetables.

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Keeping Food Safe to Eat

Handling and preparing food safely will prevent foodborne illness.

Foodborne illness

Illness that results from

consuming food contaminated with disease-causing organisms, the poisons they produce, or chemical

contaminants.

Term to Know

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Keeping Food Safe to Eat

To prevent cross-contamination, wash your hands, cutting boards, and countertops with hot, soapy water before and after food preparation.

Cross-contamination

The spreading of bacteria or other pathogens from

one food to another.

Term to Know

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Keeping Food Safe to Eat

Follow these food safety guidelines to prevent foodborne illnesses:

CleanClean SeparateSeparate CookCook ChillChill

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Lesson 3 Review

1. Vocabulary What is the Food Guide Pyramid?

2. Recall Why is eating breakfast important to your health?

3. Recall List three practices that can help prevent foodborne illness.

Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary

1. Vocabulary

A visual guide for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

2. Recall

Breakfast helps replenish your body’s energy supply and can improve your physical and mental performance.

3. Recall

Clean, separate, cook, and chill.

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