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Week 5 Overview

Module 5: Wellness and Eating

Introduction

In this Module, you will evaluate your current eating behavior and determine how to better align your food choices to the established guidelines. In addition, you will examine several food guides from other countries and reflect on how other cultures eat.

Outcomes

Recognize how healthy eating is represented in a variety of established healthy eating guides from various cultures

Evaluate your current eating behavior

Checklist

1. Examine both of these American food guides.Find a food pyramid or guide from another country. There are many options out there.

1. The USDA Choose My Plate: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/

2. Harvard’s Healthy Eating Pyramid and New Plate: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/pyramid-full-story/index.html

3. Maintain a Food Diary. For four (4) days, monitor and keep a record of everything you eat and drink on the “What Shape is Your Diet In?” worksheets.