Your Nutrition Objectives

411 - Nutrition

• Recognize components of healthy eating.
• Recognize obesity as a consequence of poor nutritional habits.
• Identify key vitamins and minerals and their contributions to good health.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the energy balance principle.
• Identify the USDA MyPyramid as a means to help individuals make good food choices and attain energy balance.
• Identify the components of Nutrition Facts labels that are on packaged foods.
• Demonstrate an ability to accurately read a Nutrition Facts label and calculate label information.
• Distinguish between a portion size and a serving size.
• Demonstrate an understanding of standard serving sizes for foods in various food groups.

In other parts of the module - Nutrition

• Set at least two personal goals to improve physical activity or diet intake.
• Complete daily logs on diet intake of fruits, vegetables, and drinks.
• Articulate the need for good food choices in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
• Identify environmental influences (home, school, community) on food choice and formulate a plan to hypothetically make changes.
• Evaluate media influences on healthy behaviors.