WHAT ARE YOU EATING?
Professor Kathleen Axen Health
& Nutrition Sciences
- How do
you make choices about what you are eating?
- Flavor
- Cost
- Nutritional
value
- Ease
and speed of access
- What
makes a fast food fast
- Mass
production
- Pre-fabrication
- Uniformity
- Passages
from Fast Food Nation by Eric Schloss
- What
nutrients do we need from foods?
- Does
it make a difference if a nutrient comes from a food or supplements?
- What
happens when we have nutrient deficiencies or excesses?
- Nutrient
analysis of a meal
- Students
are given PIZZA HUT menus and told to choose type of pizza, toppings,
number of slices and beverage
- Students
are given sheets (as can also be obtained online) with information about
the nutrient content of the various PIZZA HUT products
- Students
transfer data about their particular meals to a prepared spreadsheet and calculate the amount of protein,
fat, carbohydrate, sugar and the number of calories in their meals
- Students
calculate the percent of calories that came from fat
- The
health effects of dietary fat are discussed
- Students
consider how they might change their food choices to improve their diets.