YOU AND YOUR DIET

In this presentation, you will learn;

About the types of food you eat

What foods to avoid

What foods to eat more of

Why it is important to have a healthy diet

How Healthy Is Your Diet? - Task

On a sheet of paper, write down everything you can remember eating in the last 3 days.

You could set this out in the form of a diary.

For example

Monday8am Cornflakes10am Bacon Sandwich11am Crisps1pm Cheese Sandwich and Crisps3pm Mars Bar

Continue your diary like this.

How Healthy Is Your Diet? - Task

When you have completed your list of foods for the last 3 days, find a person you feel comfortable talking to.

Discuss some of the following questions.

What have you eaten?

Are you surprised at how much or how little you eat?

Would you describe your diet as healthy?

What could you change about your diet to make it healthier?

Your Diet

The majority of people are quite surprised when they keep a food diary because it shows them how much they actually eat.

Often, we eat without even stopping to consider what we are eating or why we are eating it.

You might like to spend some time over the next week keeping a food diary.

Doing this will allow you to monitor how much you eat and possibly stop eating things which are not necessary.

What Is A Healthy Diet?

What is a healthy diet for one person may not be as healthy

for another person.

Can you think of any reasons why this might be the case?

Some people are allergic to certain foods

Other people do not like the taste of certain foods

It is important to understand that, whilst we can discuss what

a healthy diet is, no two people will ever share the same healthy diet.

Healthy Diets – What Do You Know?

Not everybody will agree on which foods are healthy and which are unhealthy.

In fact, none of the foods named on the previous slide are so bad for you that you should give them up completely.

However, you should eat these things in moderation.

What does moderation mean?

To eat foods in moderation means eating sensible amounts of each.

For example, don’t eat sweets every day, but perhaps treat yourself to them once per week.

Which Foods Are Healthy?

Look at the traffic lights below. Imagine the different colour lights represent food and drink that we should and should not consume. For each colour, try to name different types of food and drink. One example for each has been done for you.

When you have finished, discuss your answers as a class.

Chocolate

Fruit

White bread

Which Foods Are Healthy?

You may have thought of many more answers of your own.

What we now know is that whilst most foods can be eaten in moderation, some foods are better for us than others.

Task

Using the information you have written on your traffic lights, try to develop a healthy school lunch menu for your school.

This menu should be different each day and should last for one week.

School Dinners

Set your menu out like the one below.

Monday

Hot Food Jacket Potato with Tuna or Beans

Cold Food Chicken Salad

Drinks Water

Desserts Banana

What Makes A Healthy Diet?

Now that you have looked at different aspects of food and diet, consider the following question.

What makes a healthy diet?

Try to come up with 5 rules which make a diet healthy.

Eat foods in moderation Try to vary the types of food you eat each day Don’t eat foods containing too much sugar Avoid fizzy drinks Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables

What Have We Learnt?

Keeping a food diary is a good way of tracking exactly what we eat and drink

Most foods can be eaten as long as they are eaten in moderation

Some foods are better for us than others

Having a list of diet rules helps people to eat more healthily