Question

What should we include in our food ? Explain through a food pyramid.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The Healthy Eating Food Pyramid

Eat more fruit and vegetables. Have a moderate amount of meat, fish, egg, milk and their alternatives. Reduce salt, fat/ oil and sugar. Trim fat from meat before cooking.

Answer 2

Answer:

IN SHORT

Reference Food Pyramid. Each food group provides us with different nutrients, so we need to eat foods from all of the food groups to get the nutrients we need. Our bodies need forty nutrients, which we can separate into six groups: carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, and water.

IN LONG

During our last lesson, we talked about eating whole foods. One of the most important parts of healthy living is balancing eating different kinds of whole foods and limiting your intake of processed foods so that you get all of the nutrients that your body needs. The Food Pyramid is a tool that explains exactly what you need to eat in order to get the right amount of nutrients.

(How to Teach Nutrition to Kids inspired this portion of the lesson.)

Reference Food Pyramid.

There are six categories in the Food Pyramid: the bread, cereal, rice, and pasta group (grains), the fruit group, the vegetable group, the meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, and nuts group (protein), the milk, yogurt, and cheese group (dairy), and the fats, oils, and sweets group. The size of each category on the pyramid corresponds with the amount of food, or number of servings, that we need to eat every day. The way we measure a serving depends on the food group. For example, one serving from the grains group would be a slice of bread. One serving from the fruit group would be an apple. The groups at the bottom of the pyramid take up more space, which means that we need more servings of these foods. The group at the top of the pyramid is for foods that consist primarily of fat and sugar, demonstrating that you should only eat a small amount of these foods.

Distribute Food, Nutrients, and You Handout. Reference Food Pyramid.

Each food group provides us with different nutrients, so we need to eat foods from all of the food groups to get the nutrients we need. Our bodies need forty nutrients, which we can separate into six groups: carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, and water.

Write these nutrients on the board.