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Nutrition Lesson: Students Research Fad Diets + "Is This Diet Healthy?": High School Health Curriculum Health Lessons

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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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Three slideshow presentation versions to choose from, depending on your technology needs: PowerPoint, Online (Google Slides) and PDF.

 

 

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
  • PowerPoint Presentations
    • "Is This Diet Healthy?" (91 slides)
    • "Obesity in the United States 1985-2021" (41 slides)
    • "Portion Distortion" (14 slides)

 

  • 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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