Healthy Living and Eating To identify healthy and

Healthy Living and Eating

• To identify healthy and unhealthy food, and say how much of them I should eat. • To suggest ways to improve my diet. • I can say which foods are healthy and which are less healthy. • I can design a menu that has the right amount of each food type. • I can say what is healthy about my diet. • I can say how I could improve my diet.

What does healthy living mean?

Staying Healthy There are many ways to stay healthy. Some of these ways are: Exercising regularly Eating healthily Having a happy attitude Having a healthy sleep schedule Why do you think being healthy is so important?

Exercising Is Fun! Doing regular exercise will help us all feel great and keep our bodies strong! Our hearts need to be kept active and pumping. Exercise also burns fat.

Ways to Stay Active: Walking Playing games Can you think of any more? Dancing

What Is Healthy Eating? We often hear about how important it is to make sure that we have a healthy diet. How do we know what is healthy and what is not?

The Eatwell Guide A new healthy eating guide for the UK has been developed. It is called the Eatwell Guide and looks like this.

Food Groups The Eatwell Guide shows five different food groups: It is important that we try to include all of these food groups in our diet to ensure that we stay healthy.

Healthy Foods We should aim to eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Fruit and vegetables Fish and meat Eggs, milk and cheese

Unhealthy Foods It is perfectly fine to eat a little bit of unhealthy food but eating too much unhealthy food could make us overweight and not feel great. Cakes and sweets Chocolate Chips and crisps

Can you think of any unhealthy things that people do?

Did you know that eating well and exercising stops us from being ill?