diet.how to eat healthier

Eating foods from the food guide pyramid and being physically active will help you grow healthy and strong.

Eat small amounts of your favorite foods from this

category……….

• Cakes• Condiments• Soft drinks• Chips• Cookies

Eat 2-3 servings…..

• Milk• Cheese• Yogurt• Ice Cream

• Strengthen bones which are growing stronger and longer

• Stops bleeding if you get cut or bruised• Muscles contract and relax

How Do I Get The Calcium I Need?

• String Cheese – Combined with fresh or dried fruit

• Mini Snacks – baby carrots, whole grain crackers, low fat milk

• Veggie pizza

Interactive Review for the Milk,yogurt, and Cheese Group

• How many servings are recommended from the milk, yogurt, and cheese group?

• Calcium provides what function/s to the body?

• 2 – 3 servings

• Strengthens bones• Muscles contract/relax• Stops bleeding if you

get cut or bruised

Eat 2-3 servings…….

• Dried beans and peas• Beef• Chicken and turkey• Fish• nuts

Carries oxygen to all parts of your body

Helps your body make energy

Helps prevents infection

Interactive Review on Meat Group

• How many servings are recommended from the meat group?

• Foods in the meat group help to build strong what?

• Foods in the meat group provides?

• Iron is important because?

• 2 –3 servings

• Muscles

• Protein and iron

• Helps body make energy• Helps prevent infection

Foods in the Vegetable Group gives us:

• Vitamin A

• Vitamin C

• Fiber

Eat 3-5 servings…..

• Broccoli

• Corn

• Lettuce

• Tomato

• Mushrooms

The vitamins provided by eating vegetables……

• Vitamin A – Helps us to see in the dark and keeps our skin healthy.

• Vitamin C – Helps prevent diseases

Eat 2-4 servings

• Raspberries• Apples• Kiwi• Strawberries

Fruit Group foods provides

Interactive Review on Fruit Group

• How many servings are recommended from the fruit group?

• Eating from the fruit group provides us with what vitamin?

• Vitamin C helps us with what?

• 2-4 servings

• Vitamin C

• Heals cuts and bruises• Fights infection

Eat 6-11 servings

• Bread

• Cereal

• Pasta – spaghetti and/or macaroni noodles

• Pancakes

Grain Group Foods Gives Us

Carbohydrates for the Energy We Need to Play,

Learn, Sleep and Keep Our Bodies Running 24 Hours

a Day!

Interactive Review on Grain Group

• How many servings are recommended from the grain group?

• What does the grain group gives us for the energy we need to play, learn, and sleep?

• 6-11 servings

• Carbohydrates

Ways to Increase Your Physical Activity

• Recess

• Playing sports

• Exercising

Let The Pyramid Guide Your Food Choices

• Encourage regular intake of calcium rich foods• Increase physical activity• Restrict intake of low nutrient beverages

• Take a more active role deciding what is purchased when shopping with your parents

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic

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