Nutrition Lesson: Students Research Fad Diets + "Is This Diet Healthy?": High School Health Curriculum Health Lessons
Nutrition Lesson: Discover the truth about diets!!
In this lesson, you will be surprised to learn just how unhealthy many diets actually are. This one to five-day resource is packed with valuable information designed specifically for teens. By the end of these lessons, you will have the tools to determine whether a diet is healthy or unhealthy and understand that the best approach is to eat healthy for life.
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Why Use This Resource?
- Learn how to recognize the common traits of fad diets
- Discover how to eat healthy for life
- Digital on Google Slides – all worksheets, surveys, and PowerPoints are online
- Access 40+ diets through up-to-date, reliable website links
- Complete two self-reflective surveys and a goal-setting worksheet
- Gain an understanding of healthy weight loss and how to change unhealthy habits for life
- Low-prep, high-impact lessons
- Brand-new PowerPoint designs, updated links, and current statistics
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What’s Included:
- 40 pages of easy, step-by-step teacher directions
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PowerPoint Presentations
- "Is This Diet Healthy?" (91 slides)
- "Obesity in the United States 1985-2021" (41 slides)
- "Portion Distortion" (14 slides)
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Worksheets and Activities
- "Eating Healthy for Life" Survey
- "Eating Healthy Goal Sheet"
- "Are You Eating Healthy?" Survey
- "Gaining Muscle Brochure"
- "40 Best Diets List"
What to Expect Each Day:
Day 1: Pre-Lesson:
- Understand the causes and risks of being overweight or obese
- Explore the CDC’s ‘Obesity by States’ presentation
- Learn about calories and how to calculate daily calorie needs based on weight and activity level
- Develop media literacy to spot false weight loss advertising
- Examine portion size changes over the years
- Compare dieting versus long-term healthy eating
- Watch engaging videos to reinforce key concepts
Day 2 and 3: "Is This Diet Healthy?" Lessons:
- Learn how to identify a fad diet and its risks
- Explore different types of diets:
- Controlled Carbohydrates
- Restriction Diets
- Liquid Diets
- Low Fat Diets
- Food Combining
- Fasting
- Diet Pills and More
- Access four websites with examples of 40+ different diets
- Review two websites featuring the "Dumbest Diets" and diets you should never try
- Complete the "Is This Diet Healthy?" worksheet and activity, using ten key questions to evaluate diets
- Research a chosen diet and fill out the worksheet
- Gain the ability to confidently answer: "Is this diet healthy?"
Day 4 and 5: Diet Share-Out and Habit Building
- Present diet evaluations to the class
- Complete the "Healthy Eating Personal Survey" and the "Goal Sheet"
- Follow along with PowerPoint slides on how habits are formed
- Learn how to train the brain to create new, healthy habits with less resistance
- Take the "Am I Eating Healthy?" survey to identify personal habits to improve for life
- Watch inspiring videos on healthy weight loss and explore a brochure for gaining weight
- Optional Cube Art Project to creatively reinforce learning
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