FIT OR FAT?
- NUTRITION -
What are the trends in eating in your part of the world? It seems that every time you turn on the television there is one more thing we should be eating and two more things we shouldn't. Make a list of some of your favourite foods.
For a week we would like you to keep a detailed record of the sort of food you eat, how it is prepared and what it contains. Draw up tables like the ones below.
Record what and when you eat during the week on the table:
| Time | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
in | these | spaces | record | what | you | eat |
Now you need to use the Internet to do some research. There's heaps of information on the Web about food, nutrition and eating healthily. Using your favourite search engine, find out about salt, fat, sugar, protein, carbohydrate, dietary fibre, vitamins, minerals.
Which of these appear in the foods you have eaten this week? In what quantities do they appear?
Put a tick under one or more appropriate categories each time you eat something that contains:
| Salt | Fat | Sugar | Protein | Carbohydrate | Dietary fibre | Vitamins | Minerals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here |
How is your food cooked? Tick beneath the appropriate category each time you eat food that is:
| Uncooked or raw |
Reheated or convenience |
Fried | Boiled | Grilled | Microwaved | Steamed | Stewed or crockpot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here | tick here |
After your week is up, draw up some conclusion from the data you have collected. What percentage of the food you eat in a week contains a significant amount of sugar or fat? How is most of the food you eat cooked? Find a healthy eating guide on the Net and compare your diet with the guide's recommendations.
Rate your diet on a 1-10 scale where
1 = a very healthy balanced diet and 10 = a poor diet.
Sometimes it seems as though you have to spend heaps more money in order to eat healthily. With your paired school, carry out some research which will show you whether or not this is true. Then share ideas about how you could eat more healthily without spending any more money.
| National Curriculum areas covered: | ||
| New Zealand - Level 4 | ||
| Science | Maths | English |
| Material world 1,4 Living world 4 Science and its relationship to science 1,2,3 |
Number 4,5,6 Measurement 3,4 Algebra 3 Statistics 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
Writing 2,3,5,6 Viewing 1,2,3,4 Presenting 1,2,3,4 |
| Britain - Stage 3 | ||
| Science | Maths | |
| Living processes & living things 2abcq | Data handling 1abe, 2abcdegh | |
