Guidelines for Healthy Eating
Chapter 29
What are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
What are the groups on the Food Guide Pyramid?
What is a standard serving size?
Is there a relationship between what
you eat and how you feel?
 What are some of the health problems that can result from
poor eating habits?
 Heart disease
 High blood pressure
 Stroke
 Diabetes
 Some forms of cancer
What are the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans?
 Suggestions for making healthful food choices
 These are for healthy people ages 2 – older. Not for infants
since they have special foods needs.
Aim
For Fitness
Increase physical
activity: adults 2 ½
hrs. per week
Kids and teens 1 hr. or
more each day
Activity:
Brainstorm and make a list of ways for you to be more
physically active.
Draw a picture that will remind you of what the first guideline
says.
BUILD
A HEALTHY
BASE
Shift food intake to more
plant-based diet.
Reduce intake of refined
grains.
Increase intake of seafood and
fat-free or low-fat milk and
milk products
Consume only moderate
amounts of lean meat,
poultry, and eggs.
Activity:
 Make a drawing for a poster that will give the student body
information about the foods they should be choosing for
more healthful snacking.
 Be ready to share your drawing with the class.
 (we will choose the best to use to make posters to hang in
the hall – 6 will be chosen from the class)
CHOOSE
SENSIBLY
•Reduce intake of foods
containing added sugars
•Reduce intake of solid
fats
•Reduce sodium intake to
1,500 mg. per day
•Eliminate trans-fatty
acids
Activity:
 Write a Cinquain Poem
 1st line – One Word – a subject or noun
 2nd line – Two words – Adjectives – describes line one
 3rd line – Three words – Three – ing words that relate to line
one
 4th line – Four Words Feeling or a complete sentence that
relate to line 1
 5th line – One Word – a Synonym of line 1