Unit: Health & Wellness

Section: Health & Wellness

Answer the following questions:

  1. Complete the Unit 10 questions using the red Diversified Health Occupations textbook
  1. How are the following three things important to the holistic wellness of the individual? Make sure to include your sources
  2. Physical fitness
  3. Mental fitness
  4. Social well-being
  1. What are the National Health Goals?

Unit: Health & Wellness

Section: Nutrition Through the Life Cycle

  1. Complete the Nutrition Needs and Concerns chart for all age groups. Use the power point “Nutrition Through the Life Cycle” from my website to help with this.
  1. Compare the nutritional values and content of at least two different baby formulas and breast milk.
  2. Develop a chart or graphic organizer which illustrates the most nutritional source of each vitamin or mineral.

Access the website for the following activities

  1. Toddler meals:
  2. Create a meal calendar for a young toddler. The calendar is in the folder.
  3. Include a list of food, vitamins and minerals needed for one week.
  4. The calendar should consist of at least three meals and one snack for each day.
  1. Create a brochure about healthy eating habits and practices for adults over theage of 65. The brochure must include the following:
  2. The basic nutritional needs of adults over the age of 65
  3. An example of a day’s worth of meals fitting the nutritional needs
  4. Websites listing healthy eating tips
  5. Images illustrating healthy eating

Unit: Health & Wellness

Section: MyPlate

Go to the website. Click on MyPlate to complete the activities below.

  1. Under the section “Build a Healthy Eating Style”, click on each of the food groups to determine the amount of vegetables, fruit, grains, dairy, proteins and fats that should be eaten by the various age groups. Work sheets are provided,.
  1. With a partner, create a poster about MyPlate using the following criteria

40Includes accurate information about each food group

40Includes all food groups periods

10Quality of workmanship

10Arrangement/color is eye appealing

  1. Under the section “Build a Healthy Eating Style”, click on “Eat the Right Amount of Calories For You”
  2. Click on the BMI calculator and calculate your BMI
  3. If necessary, use the scale to get your height and weight.
  4. Complete the Health and Fitness Assessment
  1. Under the section “Build a Healthy Eating Style”, click on “Choose an Eating Style Low in Saturated Fat, Sodium, and Added Sugars” to answer the following questions:
  2. What is the difference between saturated, unsaturated, and trans fats?
  3. Why should saturated and trans fats be limited?
  4. What are some common foods containing saturated fats?
  5. How are oils a part of a healthy eating style?
  6. What are some common foods that are often too high in sodium?
  7. How can you lower the amount of sodium you eat and drink?
  8. What are some sources of added sugar?
  9. How can you limit your intake of added sugar?
  1. Under the section “Choose an Eating Style Low in Saturated Fat, Sodium, and Added Sugars”, click on “Nutrition Facts Label”
  2. Read through the information on how to read the nutrition facts label
  3. Complete the Food Nutrition Label worksheet
  1. What small changes can be made to create a healthier eating style?

Unit Health & Wellness

Section: Diets

Go to my website and click on “Diets-The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” to do the following activities.

  1. Define “diet”.
  1. What is the difference between a healthy diet for weight loss and a fad diet for weight loss?
  1. Choose one of the fad diets on the power point and write a one-page report about it.
  1. Why is childhood obesity on the rise in the United States?

Therapeutic Diets

  1. Describe the following therapeutic diets and what condition(s) they are used for. List at foods used in the diet and foods that should be limited. Many of the answers can be found in the red Diversified Health Occupations text
  2. Soft diet
  3. Diabetic diet
  4. Low-calorie
  5. High-calorie
  6. Low-cholesterol
  7. Fat-restricted
  8. Sodium-restricted
  9. Low-protein
  10. Bland
  11. Low-residue

Eating Disorders

  1. Take the Eating Disorder Assessment quiz
  1. After, review the power point presentation to find the answers
  1. Write a self-assessment on how much you knew and didn’t know about eating disorders

Unit: Health & Wellness

Section: Diabetes

  1. Report on the three types of Diabetes (Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational) to include the following:
  2. A description
  3. Etiology
  4. Symptoms
  5. Risk factors
  6. Diagnosis
  7. Treatment
  8. Prevention
  1. In your opinion, why is Type 2 Diabetes so prevalent in today’s society? Support your claim with facts from various sources.