The New Food Guide Pyramid

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The New Food Guide Pyramid

• By
• Cindy Zirnheld

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Introduction

• Welcome to the NEW Food Guide Pyramid. Did you
  know that the Food Guide Pyramid has changed?
  Find out whats different and whats the same.
  Is your Food Guide Pyramid the same as your
  parents? Find out in this powerquest.

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Task

• Your task will be to visit websites and gather
  information on the new food guide pyramid. With
  the information you gather, you will be
  constructing an individualized food guide pyramid.

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Process

• Step One
• 1. Read the My Pyramid page (page 1) in
• your packet.

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Process

• Step Two
• 1. Visit the My Pyramid website on the links
  page.
• 2. Enter your age, sex, and physical
• activity in the My Pyramid Plan box
• located in the upper right hand corner
  
• of the page. Click submit.
• 3. Read the My Pyramid Plan page that
• pops up.
• 4. Click on the first arrow under the pyramid
• picture. Print out the page that pops up.
  Read
• through your page and keep it for
  further use.

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Process

• Step Three
• 1. Go back to the home page of the My Pyramid
  website.
• 2. Click on Inside the Pyramid in the blue
• box on the left hand side of the page.
• 3. Click on each part of the pyramid to
• learn about each part.
• 4. Click on the learn more button to get
• detailed information about each part. Read
• and take notes on what foods are in each part.

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Process

• Step Four
• 1. Visit the Kids Health website on the links
  page.
• 2. Scroll down, read entire article, and compare
  amounts of foods to be eaten given in article to
  amounts in your my pyramid plan page printed
  earlier.

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Process

• Step Five
• 1. Pick up a blank pyramid paper.
• 2. Fill in blank pyramid with food group labels
  and colors, your daily serving amounts, and
  pictures of various foods in each group.
• 3. There are pictures of foods in your packet
  to cut out paste on the pyramid.

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Links

• My Pyramid
• http//www.mypyramid.gov/
• Kids Health
• http//www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/p
  yramid.html

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Assess
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End

• Congratulations you have now completed this
  PowerQuest.