Contents
• Kenya
• Tennessee, U.S.A.
• Canada
• Bangladesh
• New York, U.S.A.
• China
• Yemen
• Israel
• Latvia
• Japan
• Venezuela
• California, U.S.A.

Kenya
• Equatorial country lying between 5˚N and
5˚S latitudes
• Climate varies from tropical to arid
• Declared independence from British rule in 1963

Noolkisaruni Tarakuai
• What do you notice about the cattle in the picture? Why do they look this way?
• What do you notice about the amount of food that Noolkisaruni eats in one day?

Noolkisaruni Tarakuai
• What foods do you think you recognize in the photo of Noolkisaruni’s one day of food?

Noolkisaruni Tarakuai
• What food groups are missing in the photo?
• What food groups are represented in the photo?

Noolkisaruni Tarakuai
• What kind of “kitchen” would Noolkisaruni need to prepare these foods?

Noolkisaruni Tarakuai
• Noolkisaruni goes to the market only once in a while. What must have been bought at the market to make this one day’s diet?

Noolkisaruni Tarakuai
• How does Noolkisaruni’ s whole daily diet compare to yours?
• What one meal in your diet is most like hers?

Noolkisaruni Tarakuai
• Noolkisaruni ate only 800 calories on the day that the photography team arrived. This is not a diet that will sustain her for life. What can she do?

Halls, Tennessee, U.S.A.
• Southeastern state bordering the
Mississippi River
• Home of Country Music and Elvis, the King of
Rock and Roll

The Candidate for Obesity Surgery

Rick Bumgardner
• Rick Bumgardner has enjoyed too much
“country eating.” What do you suppose that expression means?

Rick Bumgardner
• Does Rick look healthy?
• Rick is classified as “morbidly obese.” What does that mean?

Rick Bumgardner
• Look at the food in Rick’s poster. Is it a lot of food, too little food, or just about the right amount of food for a whole day’s diet?
• To get to his current weight, how much more must
Rick have eaten?

Rick Bumgardner
• What do you recognize in Rick’s breakfast?
• Connie plans what he eats. How has she tried to cut down on calories and fat?
• Why does Rick show medicines at his breakfast?

Rick Bumgardner
• What does Rick drink for beverages during the day?
• Are his beverages low-calorie?
• What vegetable servings do you see? Are they all low-calorie?

Rick Bumgardner
• Rick’s wife Connie has made some decisions about not making Rick’s diet too strict. She’s probably afraid he would be too tempted to cheat. What compromises did she make to help him stay on track?
• Do you think Rick “cheats?”

Rick Bumgardner
• Rick continues to try to lose enough weight to qualify for gastric surgery to shrink the size of his stomach.
This surgery is usually successful in helping people lose weight, but it carries some serious risks, including death. Why would Rick choose this surgery?

Canada
• 2nd largest country in land area
• 2nd largest oil reserves in the world
• High-tech industrial society

Coco Simone Finken
• Coco lives about 50 miles from the U.S. border. What about her appearance and where she lives looks familiar to teens in your neighborhood?
• What about the food she eats looks familiar?

Coco Simone Finken
• How balanced is Coco’s one-day diet? Track servings for each food group.

Coco Simone Finken
• Many vegetarians like Coco do not eat meat, a major source of the proteins we need to live and grow. What are other good sources of protein within her diet?

Coco Simone Finken
• List the high-fat/ high-calorie foods in her diet.
• Coco is 5'9" and weighs 130 pounds.
Are you surprised that her Body Mass Index
(BMI) is 19.2, the lower range of normal weight?

Coco Simone Finken
• There appears to be two glasses of milk on the table. Only one is low-fat milk. The other is soy milk. Which of the two is a better choice for Coco?

Coco Simone Finken
• Coco and her family grow their own vegetables and shop for organic foods “to the extent that they can afford the higher costs.” Why do organic foods cost more?