Posted: November 10, 2011
Homework- Complete Backtrack questions 1-10 for Monday. Hope everyone enjoyed the lovely Remembrance Day ceremony today.
Have a great weekend and remember those who have lost their lives for our freedom.
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Posted: November 7, 2011
Read pages 74- 77 in textbook. Complete table on worksheet called "Carbohydrates in Action".
Posted: November 2, 2011
Test tomorrow on Chapter 4. You must know how to use Canada's Food Guide and DRI tables to analyze a one day food intake for a person (age and gender provided).
Study terms on your review sheet as well.
Posted: November 1, 2011
Everyone should have the diet analysis and label assignments submitted.
Complete Chapter 4 review for tomorrow. We will be checking it in class.
Test on Chap 4 on Thursday.
Posted: October 24, 2011
Today the class learned how to use the Food Focus software program to analyze their food intake. Everyone should have one day entered and saved into the program. Tomorrow we will deliver the nutrition snack to period 2 classes. Wednesday, we will finish entering the foods you ate and print the data from the software. This data will be used to complete your diet analysis and determine which nutrients you have a healthy intake of, which ones you have a deficiency of and those you may have a toxin intake of.
Collect 4 food labels for Friday please.
Posted: October 19, 2011
No Homework tonight but make sure you begin recording what you eat. You must have a 3 day recall completed by Monday. Label assignment passed out today will not be due until next week. You will need to collect 4 food labels for that assignment so you may begin collecting them any time now. Make sure you have the entire label with Nutrition facts table and ingredient list on it.
Posted: October 17, 2011
Homework- Study for quiz.
You must know what each of the following are:
EAR, RDA, AI and UL
Be able to analyze a one day food intake based on Canada's Food Guide. You will be able to use your copy of the food guide to do this.
Be able to tell:
What range of the above numbers is:
a) a healthy intake
b) a deficiency
c) a toxicity
Posted: October 14, 2011
Today, the class welcomed Jessica Sargent from MANGO to speak about the Nutrition Policy in schools and to demonstrate how to create a Nutrition Facts table for a favorite family recipe.
Link to EA Tracker, Dietitians of Canada:
http://www.eatracker.ca/
Have fun analyzing your recipes and what you eat using this great tool.
Posted: October 13, 2011
Today, everyone should have completed their personal DRI table. If not, complete it for homework and hand it in tomorrow. Sheet is attached.
Site is Health Canada, click on Food and Nutrition, Nutrition and Healthy Eating, Dietary Reference Intakes, DRI tables. Open the pdf file. Tables begin around page 7 of this 13 page document.
Direct link: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/hpfb-dgpsa/pdf/nutrition/dri_ta...
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Posted: October 12, 2011
Homework- make sure you have your BMI and EER calculated for tomorrow.