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Building a Balanced Diet: Essential Food Groups and Choices

Understanding what should be on your plate is crucial for a balanced diet. This includes a variety of fruits, whole and refined grains, vegetables, proteins, and dairy. Fruits can be fresh, canned, frozen, or dried. Focus on whole grains like oatmeal and brown rice, while limiting refined grains such as white bread. Include a colorful array of vegetables, from dark greens to red/orange varieties. Don’t forget protein sources like meat, beans, and nuts, and dairy products like milk and yogurt. Together, these groups can help you analyze and improve your dietary choices.

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Building a Balanced Diet: Essential Food Groups and Choices

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  1. What should be on my plate?

  2. Fruits • •Any fruit or 100% fruit juice. Can be whole, cut-up, pureed or juice • Fresh • Canned • Frozen • Dried Grains • Whole Grains • Entire grain kernel • Examples Oatmeal Brown rice Whole cornmeal • Refined Grains • Processed grains • Examples White flour White bread White rice

  3. Vegetables • Any vegetable or 100% vegetable juice. Can be may be whole, cut-up, or mashed • Ways to eat them raw  cooked  Fresh  frozen  canned dried/dehydrated • 5 Sub groups • Dark green veggies • Broccoli • Starchy Veggies • Corn • Red/Orange Veggies • Red peppers • Beans and Peas • Black beans • Other veggies • cucumbers

  4.  Protein • build, maintain repair body tissue • Examples • Meat • Beans/Peas • Seafood • Poultry • Eggs • Nuts/Seeds  Dairy • fluid milk products and many foods made from milk • Examples • Milk • Cheese • Yogurt • Milk based products • Pudding • Ice cream • Frozen yogurt

  5. Now you are going to get with a partner. • Look at your food and activity diary. • You are going to analyze the food you ate the previous day. • Share/discuss with your partner how you can improve your diet. • On the following Slide, explain where changes can be made so that your diet is more balanced

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