Excerpt from Dietary Guidelines and Your Diet: Home Economics Teacher's Guide What makes up a healthful diet? How can people make food choices that promote good health? Newspapers, magazines, books, radio, and television tell us what to eat. Many people are aware that diet may be important in chronic health conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, tooth decay, diabetes, osteoporosis, and some forms of cancer. Yet sorting through information can be a difficult task! Sound dietary guidance, as provided by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, is important in a world with so many food choices and so many sources of nutrition information. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, published by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, are seven recommendations designed to help keep healthy Americans healthy and perhaps even improve their health. These Guidelines are straightforward, simple, qualitative recommendations for making food choices. They may be inappropriate, however, for those who follow special diets because of disease. The Guidelines represent the best advice that nutrition scientists can give currently. They will be revised as research provides more information. The first two Guidelines form the framework of a healthy diet. Eat a variety of foods in amounts to provide nutrients needed for good health and calories to maintain desirable weight. The other five Guidelines underscore qualities of a good diet avoiding too much fat, saturated fatty acids, and cholesterol; sugars; sodium; and alcoholic beverages while consuming adequate starch and fiber. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This book is a summary of all the background and tools needed to utilize the Team Nutrition/Scholastic curricula. Contains brief background information for brushing up on nutrition basics; step-by-step instructions for using the Food Guide Pyramid and food label; lesson-by-lesson planners for integrating the activities into regular classes; tips and jewels of wisdom from teachers who have paved the way; and appendices containing forms, worksheets, etc.