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Eating foods from the food guide pyramid and being physically active will
help you grow healthy and strong.
Eat small amounts of your
favorite foods from this
category……….
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Cakes
Condiments
Soft drinks
Chips
Cookies
Eat 2-3 servings…..
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Milk
Cheese
Yogurt
Ice Cream
• Strengthen bones which are growing stronger and
longer
• Stops bleeding if you get cut or bruised
• Muscles contract and relax
How Do I Get The Calcium I
Need?
• String Cheese – Combined with fresh or
dried fruit
• Mini Snacks – baby carrots, whole grain
crackers, low fat milk
• Veggie pizza
Interactive Review for the
Milk,yogurt, and Cheese Group
• How many servings
are recommended
from the milk, yogurt,
and cheese group?
• Calcium provides
what function/s to the
body?
• 2 – 3 servings
• Strengthens bones
• Muscles contract/relax
• Stops bleeding if you
get cut or bruised
Eat 2-3 servings…….
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Dried beans and peas
Beef
Pork
Chicken and turkey
Fish
nuts
Carries oxygen to all parts of your body
Helps your body make energy
Helps prevents infection
Interactive Review on
Meat Group
• How many servings are
recommended from the
meat group?
• Foods in the meat group
help to build strong what?
• Foods in the meat group
provides?
• 2 –3 servings
• Iron is important because?
• Helps body make energy
• Helps prevent infection
• Muscles
• Protein and iron
Foods in the Vegetable Group
gives us:
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin C
• Fiber
Eat 3-5 servings…..
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Broccoli
Corn
Lettuce
Tomato
Mushrooms
The vitamins provided by eating
vegetables……
• Vitamin A – Helps us to see in the dark
and keeps our skin healthy.
• Vitamin C – Helps prevent diseases
Eat 2-4 servings
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Raspberries
Apples
Kiwi
Strawberries
Fruit Group foods provides
Interactive Review on
Fruit Group
• How many servings
are recommended
from the fruit group?
• Eating from the fruit
group provides us with
what vitamin?
• Vitamin C helps us
with what?
• 2-4 servings
• Vitamin C
• Heals cuts and bruises
• Fights infection
Eat 6-11 servings
• Bread
• Cereal
• Pasta – spaghetti and/or
macaroni noodles
• Pancakes
Grain Group Foods Gives Us
Carbohydrates for the
Energy We Need to Play,
Learn, Sleep and Keep Our
Bodies Running 24 Hours
a Day!
Interactive Review on Grain
Group
• How many servings
are recommended
from the grain group?
• What does the grain
group gives us for the
energy we need to
play, learn, and sleep?
• 6-11 servings
• Carbohydrates
Ways to Increase Your Physical
Activity
• Recess
• Playing sports
• Exercising
Let The Pyramid Guide Your
Food Choices
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Encourage regular intake of calcium rich foods
Increase physical activity
Restrict intake of low nutrient beverages
Take a more active role deciding what is
purchased when shopping with your parents
Corbin, C. B., Corbin, W. R., Lindsey, R.,
& Welk, G. J. (2003). 5th Edition.
Concepts of Fitness and Wellness.
Insel, P. M., & Roth, W. T. (2002). Core Concepts in
Health.
http://www.healthfinder.gov
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic