Dietary Guidelines
Chapter 8
What do dietary guidelines do for americans?
b. A diet is an eating plan.
Getting enough nutrients within your calorie needs.
B. A food that provides high amounts of vitamins and minerals for relatively few calories.
How to maintain a healthy weight.
b. Diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, some types of cancer, arthritis
c. starve
d. get involved in a team or individual sport, walk briskly or ride a bike rather than ride a car or bus
suggestions for being physically active everyday
b.60 mins a day
c. make whole grain products the star of your meals, enjoy fruit or vegies with meals and snacks
Importance of whole grains fruits vegies and milk
b.they help protect heart disease and cancer
c.eat fruit instead sugary desserts, eat meals featuring cooked dry beans or peas, drink fruit or vegie juice with your meals.
How to limit fats and cholesterol
b. heart disease and cholesterol
c. Keep saturated fats to less than 10 percent of your calories, eat as few foods containing trans fats as possible, limit cholesterol to less than 300 milligrams per day. choose mostly foods prepared with little or no fat.
be choosy about carbs
b.fiber rich vegies, fruits, and whole grain foods
c.potassium helps counteract some of sodium effect on blood pressure
why reduce sodium and increase potassium
b. high blood pressure,heart attack and stroke
c. potassium helps counteract some of soddiums effects on blood pressure.