WHAT ARE YOU EATING?

 

Professor Kathleen Axen Health & Nutrition Sciences

 

  1. How do you make choices about what you are eating?
    1. Flavor
    2. Cost
    3. Nutritional value
    4. Ease and speed of access

 

  1. What makes a fast food fast
    1. Mass production
    2. Pre-fabrication
    3. Uniformity
    4. Passages from Fast Food Nation by Eric Schloss

 

  1. What nutrients do we need from foods?

 

  1. Does it make a difference if a nutrient comes from a food or supplements?

 

  1. What happens when we have nutrient deficiencies or excesses?

 

  1. Nutrient analysis of a meal
    1. Students are given PIZZA HUT menus and told to choose type of pizza, toppings, number of slices and beverage

 

    1. Students are given sheets (as can also be obtained online) with information about the nutrient content of the various PIZZA HUT products

 

    1. 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

 

    1. Students calculate the percent of calories that came from fat

 

    1. The health effects of dietary fat are discussed

 

    1. Students consider how they might change their food choices to improve their diets.