Review Questions
- List the six food groups represented by MyPyramid.
- Which food group contains soybeans, kidney beans, and fish?
- What guideline should you follow in choosing foods from the grains food group?
- Which ingredient is always listed first on a food label?
- What happens if you take in more energy than you use, day after day?
- Explain how you can use MyPyramid to choose foods that provide the proper balance
of nutrients. - Why should you limit foods like ice cream and potato chips in a healthy eating plan?
- Explain how you can use food labels to choose foods that are high in fiber.
- Why should you try to avoid foods with processed ingredients? What are some exam-
ples of processed ingredients? - How does physical activity help prevent obesity?
Further Reading / Supplemental Links
- Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson. Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to
Know about Fast Food.Houghton Mifflin, 2006. - John Burstein.The Shape of Good Nutrition: The Food Pyramid.Crabtree Publishing
Company, 2008. - Rose McCarthy. Food Labels: Using Nutrition Information to Create a Healthy Diet.
Rosen Publishing Group, 2008. - Sandra Giddens. Making Smart Choices about Food, Nutrition, and Lifestyle. Rosen
Central, 2008.
CK–12. High SchoolBiology. Chapter 38, Lesson 1.
- http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~acrobat/nutfacts.pdf
- http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html
- http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/parents/nutritionlabel.html
- http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/pdf/DGA2005.pdf
- http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/21/372/0.pdf
- http://www.mypyramid.gov
- http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/537296
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002459.htm
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/exerciseforchildren.html
- http://www.prb.org/Articles/2005/WillRisingChildhoodObesityDecreaseUSLifeExpectancy.
aspx - http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/307/5716/1716
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki