Healthy Food Choices

Why Starch and Fiber are Right for Healthy Food Choices

STANDARD - 2.1

GRADE - 6

GOAL - The students will learn how to make healthy food choices and why starch and fiber are healthy.

SWBAT

Understand why starch and fiber are important
Identify which food to limit
Explaining ways on cutting back of bad food choices

LEARNING TASKS - Begin your lesson with DO NOW question on the board. "What is your favorite food?" Give them several minutes to think about and write their answers down. I'm not going to give you examples - but most likely the students will give you the unhealthy ones. It's ok - just tell them that today they will be able to correct this unhealthy lifestyle.

Now - continue your lesson by letting your students create a stretch book about healthy food choices.

Stretch book for healthy choices

During the presentation students are going to answer the questions from the provided worksheet.

Healthy choices worksheet After your students have created healthy food choices stretch book begin the topic with words to know.

Starch - provider of long lasting energy. Source of starches are potatoes - rice - wheat.

Fiber - plays important role in removing waste from the body.

Tell the students that starch and fiber are complex carbohydrates.

In order to make a healthy food choice you need to know which foods are healthy and which are not. The decisions should be made based on what my friends are eating. Instead - they should be made by you - because you know which food is healthy and which is not.

Which food to limit?

Cutting down on salt

Cut down salty foods
Buy brands with less salt
Eat less canned and packed food

However - sodium is an important mineral for the body. It controls body fluid. But if you eat too much salt - it will cause heart disease and high blood pressure.

Reducing fat and cholesterol

Choose low fat milk products
Avoid fried foods
Eat lean meat
Eat low fat desserts

Eggs - milk - butter - meat they overload your bodies with saturated fat and cholesterol. High number of cholesterol and fat leads to heart disease.

Cut down on caffeine

Drink less coffee
Get enough rest

Caffeine speeds up the heart beat - that's why people can't fall asleep at night.

Cut down on sugar

Eat less sugary food
Drink less of soft drinks

Sugar is a great contributor of empty calories. It is also contributes to tooth decay. Which will make you to go to a dentist. No one likes to go to a dentist - but that's another topic.

Ok - this lesson is to make you aware of what type of foods to limit. LIMIT. I am not saying completely avoid - just limit or eat less. Some of this food is very important to a healthy well being. But having too much of it will cause health problems.

CONCLUSION What is starch and fiber? What food should you limit and why? What are some ways on cutting back on bad choices of food?

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