Diet EvaluationName______
1. Go to http://www.choosemyplate.gov
2. Click on Online Tools, then BMI calculator.
3. Under Child and adolescents, click on BMI calculator (in blue print); click Child and Teen BMI Calculator fill in the required information and calculate.
4. What is your BMI percentile. _____
5. Click on What does this mean? ______
6. What should you do? ______
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7. Click on Tips to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Children and Teens.
List the health risks associated with being overweight? ______
8. How should healthy eating habits be encouraged?
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Evaluating Your Diet (go back to choosemyplate.gov)
9. On line toolsClick on Supertracker (click on picture of orange w/ arrow). Top of screen on right hand side, click on create profile(upper right). Follow directions on screen. Write down you user name. _____Write down your password! _____ Write down today’s date. _____
10. Enter foods you have eaten into food tracker. Choose amount eaten, mealtime and +ADD button. Enter one day. Be sure to note the date at the top left, write it down so that you may go back to this date if you do not finish today.
11. Record the amounts eaten for the entire day in your food group target chart. These are at the top right of the screen. Use attached chart.
12. Click on Physical Activity Tracker and enter your days physical activity.
13. Change the date in the upper left. Record the date. ______Repeat steps 9 thru 12 for a second day.
14. Click on My Reports then Nutrients Report. Click on dates and the Create report. Record your findings on the chart provided.
15. Click on to My Reports then Food Groups & Calories Report. Click on dates and then Create Report. Record your findings on the chart provided.
16. Create a report for any area listed. These are great tools to help with nutrition, weight lose or gain. Check these out!
17. Detailed Plan for Improved Nutrition and Weight. Using all the data you have collected, write a detailed plan of specific ways to improve your diet for your future health. Things to cover are food groups, nutrients, whole grains, vegetable groups, and physical activity.
How well did you do on predicting servings, vegetable types, grain types from your three days of eating habits paper.
Write a plan to lose weight or gain weight. What are your goals?
How and when will you achieve these goals? Use a separate piece of paper.
18. Staple together Eating Habits (what you ate for 3 days), this packet, and your Detailed Plan for Improved Nutrition and Weight (#17). Be sure your name is on all papers.