Stay Healthy

UNIT 1: Stay healthy
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”

The Food Guide Pyramid is a guide, a suggestion of the types and amounts of food that a person needs to be healthy.
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1-Take a look at these food items and decide which ones you can include in a healthy diet.
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Fish salt fries fruits vegetables meat pasta hamburger bread2- Have a look at a balanced diet:

3- … and think about yours. Can you draw it?



1The U.S. government has revised the food groups and the number of daily recommended servings.

4- Have a look at the following conversation between two friends:

Student A: Hi! It’s Friday night and it’s John’s farewell party at your house! What are you going to prepare for tonight’sdinner?
Student B: Mmmmm, I really don’t know. I think I’ll order some pizza.
Student A: That sounds great! I’ll take a soda. Is it ok?
Student B: Perfect!! What about dessert?
Student A: I’ll buy some ice-cream.

Now try to make a healthier option reformulating the dialogue.




Warm-up:

According to a survey conducted by the University of Michigan in 2011, parents in theUnited States view obesity and drug abuse as the biggest health concerns for American kids.
Medscape Medical News © 2011 WebMD, LLC
One of the reasons to blame is that fast food is a significant part of teen culture in the USA.

* Think about the positive (f.eg. tasteful) and negative aspects of fast food (f.eg. too much salt, too much sugar).-------------------------------------------------




Obesity is now an epidemic among teens which can result in serious health problems. In the United States, fast food is extremely popular. Mc Donald’s is one of the best known fast food chains. Do you think fast food is good to your health?

The good news is that simple things can help!



“Mc Donald´s is making continued progress today by providing more fruitand reducing the calories in its Happy Meals”.
Michelle Obama (by David Jackson, USA TODAY. Sept. 26th, 2011.
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You are going to read a newspaper article.
McDonald's: Apple slices in every Happy Meal
Updated 7/26/2011 6:28 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's is adding apples to all its Happy Meals and launching a nutrition-focused mobile phone app.-------------------------------------------------
A McDonald's Cheeseburger Happy Meal with the new apple slices option is shown on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Keith Srakocic, AP
The restaurant industry is reacting to the demands of customers and regulators who blame it for health problems like childhood obesity to diabetes.
Among other changes in McDonald's (MCD) new program:
— McDonald's promised to reducesugars, saturated fats and calories through "varied portion sizes, reformulations and innovations" by 2020. It didn't give details. By 2015, it will reduce sodium by 15%.

* BLOG: Michelle Obama praises McDonald's
— McDonald's will introduce a new mobile app focused just on nutrition information.
— McDonald's USA president Jan Fields and other executives will go on a "listening tour" in Augustto hear suggestions from parents and nutrition experts. The chain will also launch a new online forum for parents.
McDonald's says the new directives are "absolutely not" related to impending regulations that will force the industry to curb the marketing of junk food to children and post nutrition information on menus.
Rather, the changes are a response to what customers are asking for, saidCindy Goody, McDonald's senior director of nutrition.
"We've been in the nutrition game for over 30 years in providing nutrition information to our customers," Goody said. "Now what we're doing is we're adding more food groups and … creating nutritional awareness."
The nutrition talk also is also helping McDonald's grab business from other fast-food restaurants, even as the recession forced...