Amounts of food
I can explain why the amount of food humans eat is important.
Amounts of food
I can explain why the amount of food humans eat is important.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- A dietician is a scientist who studies food and advises people on their food and nutrition choices.
- Eating too much, or not enough, of certain types of food can be harmful to our health.
- Information about amounts of food can be found by using secondary sources of information.
- The Eatwell plate is a guide based on how much you should eat from each food group.
Keywords
Dietician - A dietician is a person who scientifically studies and gives advice about food and eating.
Nutrition - Nutrition is what you take into your body as food and the way that it influences your health.
Amount - An amount is a quantity of something.
Secondary sources - Secondary sources are texts, images or objects created using information gathered by others.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that a ‘balanced’ diet should include equal-sized proportions of the different food groups (rather than appropriate amounts of each food group).
Explanation that humans need to eat different amounts of foods and that the Eatwell plate shows us the amounts of each food that we should eat.
Equipment
You may choose to gather a selection of real food for pupils to place onto a larger scale Eatwell plate.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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