Nutrition Webquest

WEBQUEST: NUTRITION Activity 1: What about your eating habits?

Answer these questions in groups and then share your personal experiences with the rest of the class.

1. Do you eat out or at home? If you go to restaurant, how many times a week?

2. Do you eat fruit every day?

3. Do you like eating at home? What do you usually have for lunch/dinner?

4. What healthy food do you know?

Now that we have got a little personal, let’s search for some key information on the internet. Let’s see if you are the fastest in the class. In the same groups look these questions up: ●

Why we should eat fruit every day and how many pieces we should have?

______________________________________________________________________ ____________________ ●

Name 2 benefits of eating at home rather than going to a restaurant, ask Google about

it.

(If

you

run

out

of

ideas,

here

you

have

a

hint:

http://www.healthfitnessrevolution.com/top-10-health-benefits-cooking-home/) ______________________________________________________________________ ____________________ ●

What makes a food healthy?

______________________________________________________________________ ____________________

Activity 2: Top 5 mistakes teenagers do.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0ZTy2SWfk Pizza or pasta? Steak, chicken or beans? Whole milk or 2%? This lively program focuses on teen nutrition and helps students understand the five biggest food mistakes

made by most teenagers. Teenage on-camera hosts use MyPlate.gov to help students understand portion sizes and food group servings.

Now answer these questions o check you have understood the video you can use the internet to help you out and look for further information to give it that touch of amazing work!

1) In general, do the teenagers from the video eat healthy?

What about teenagers in Spain? (Use Google) 2) What

does

the

video

conductor

mean

by

smart

choices?

(Hint:

http://education.qld.gov.au/schools/healthy/food-drink-strategy.html) 3) What kind of health problems do bad habits lead to?

Can you name others? (Use Google) 4) What are the top 5 mistakes teenagers do? What are the solutions to these?

Activity 3: Fast food vs. slow food?

Reading: https://sites.duke.edu/history390as_01_1ss2015_gabriellarivera/2015/07/01/slow-foodvs-fast-food/ Before carrying out the activity, search on the web and answer these questions, the first group having the correct response should get a bonus point for the final evaluation: 1) What is the slow food?

2) Why did this movement created?

3) Who and where was created?

Put these paragraphs in order to find out the meaning of the text. Check in pairs your answers and write your opinion about this topic.

You

can

find

more

information

about

the

slow

food

movement

here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food

Slow Food vs. Fast Food 2 Neither Slow Food or Fast Food alone can give the world what it’s in need of: plentiful, healthy food for it’s. Slow Food is too unrealistic to feed the evergrowing population, but Fast Food is leading to an abundant, but unsafe and blurry food supply. Slow Food, started not even 30 years ago, runs on the motto “good, clean, fair”. Of course, this sounds wonderful in theory. However, implementation of the movement is much more complicated and unrealistic, in my opinion.

4 The size of our population, as it stands, simply cannot survive off of the local land, as wonderful as it sounds. Now that we do have transportation, nearly instantaneous, people have settled in food deserts and barren areas. There’s simply no way to effectively live locally with a dense population.

Population aside, we face problems with food distribution worldwide. While the U.S. is home to 79 million obese people, the world is full of almost 800 million starving people. Clearly, we need a revolution of some kind; I just don’t know that Slow Food holds all the answers.

1 In 1986, Slow Food arose in opposition to the fast food revolution: more specifically, the McDonald’s near the Spanish Steps in Rome. The movement has grown, not only within Italy but also across the globe. It’s gained a reputation, however, as a “foodie” trend more than a revolution, and this needs to change before it can become effective.

3 Even in the movie we watched about Slow Food, Carlos Petrini came off very elitist. He preached “living off the land”, yet took a private jet to multiple continents to show how indigenous people live. He didn’t try to show a sustainable way of life, but a historic and nomadic way. Eating seasonally, as the movement would require, would be a huge step back in the realm of progress.

5 Not to mention, the way of life we’ve become accustomed to in America would make this new way of life nearly impossible. Several people work multiple jobs, are scarcely home, and subsist on fast food because it’s not only cheap, but takes less time. We’ve become a time-efficient society, and Slow Food would set us

back a lot (primarily in the way of gender roles, as I’m sure women will be expected to step back up to the plate, literally). The fact of the matter is, organic food is costly, in terms of time and money.

8 Our earthly problems with food, I think, can be solved once we find the proper place on the fast food-slow food spectrum. Either extreme is dangerous to our survival, but in order to be effective, we need to collaborate on either side instead of battle. There are merits and limits of both approaches, all of which need to be considered and critically evaluated before anything gets accomplished. However, this all needs to start with the education and awareness of leaders, producers, and consumers alike, before cooperation and rejuvenation is achieved.

6 Despite the limits of Slow Food, it DOES raise several questions regarding the purity of the food we consume daily. Living in America, I’ve never been taught to question where my food comes from or how it’s been treated. I’ve read Fast Food Nation, and I’m well aware of how animals and the like are treated, but even aside from that I’ve never thought much of it.

The Slow Food lifestyle would also greatly benefit smaller farmers and businesses, and in a world full of corporate giants and mass production (near monopolies), it could be just what we need. But it ignores the expenses that come with smaller farms and eating/growing fully organic foods.

7 Looking at food as pleasure, rather than fuel, has radically changed my perspective on the matter since being in Italy. My dinners have been averaging 3 or 4 hours, as opposed to 30 minutes tops back in America. Instead of shoving a burger down my throat, I’ve been enjoying three course meals with detailed descriptions of origin. The literal meaning of Slow Food might be enough to spark interest in the journey of our food, not as fuel, but as an experience.

Activity 4: Eating abroad Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po0O9tRXCyA Play the video to know more about the meals in different schools. First, stop the video while showing the country and ask students what kind of food they think it is going to appear, as it shown in the picture below. For that, in groups, browse online to find the traditional meal of that country or an ingredient they use a lot in that country.

Secondly, we will create a debate with the questions appearing at the end of this

activity.

List of countries appearing in the video, name their traditional meal or a basic ingredient of their meals: ●

UK:_____________________________________________________________ _________________

●

US:_____________________________________________________________ _________________

●

Cuba:____________________________________________________________ _______________

●

Norway:_________________________________________________________ _______________

●

Nigeria:__________________________________________________________ _______________

●

France:__________________________________________________________ ________________

●

Russia:__________________________________________________________

________________ ●

Mexico:__________________________________________________________ _______________

●

Japan:___________________________________________________________ ________________

●

Philipines:________________________________________________________ ______________

●

India:____________________________________________________________ ______________

●

Korea:___________________________________________________________ _______________ Debate:

1. Which one do you think is healthier?

2. Why do you think they have those eating habits?

3. Does your country have healthy eating habits?

Activity 5: Create your own menu With the information seen so far, imagine you are the chef of our high school and you have to create the menu for this week, this being as healthier as possible containing the following: Starter 1st course 2nd course Dessert

Here you have an example of a healthy menu, you will find many more on the web: https://www.verywellfit.com/an-example-of-a-healthy-balanced-meal-plan-2506647 Take

a

look

at

some

healthy

and

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/category/healthy-recipes/ http://spanishsabores.com/2016/01/28/11-healthy-spanish-recipes/

tasty

dishes: