Students will demonstrate an awareness of the types of food needed to maintain a healthy diet and how fast food doesn't fit into a healthy plan.

In this lesson: Students will research a variety of take-away food menus to examine the amount of fats, carbohydrates and protein contained within some of their favorite fast foods. Students will create a menu to eat from a variety of fast food venues for an entire day to determine if it is possible to eat a nutritional diet of fast food venues alone. Students must stay within recommended dietary requirements for their age.

Students explain why excessive fat intake is not healthful, describe ways to limit fat when eating fast food, identify the difference between healthful and less healthful fats, and make lower fat choices from fast food restaurant menus.

Students will describe the impact of fast food on the American diet, analyze their community to identify fast food restaurants and grocery stores, and identify three ways to make healthier food choices using the fast food restaurants and grocery stores in their community.

Students learn about fat and calories, as well as, information and a video on how to read a nutrition facts label.Fats, or lipids, are nutrients in food that the body uses to build cell membranes, nerve tissue (like the brain), and hormones. The body also uses fat as fuel. If fats that a person has eaten aren't burned as energy or used as building blocks, they are stored by the body in fat cells. This is the body's way of thinking ahead: By saving fat for future use, it plans for times when food might be scarce. A calorie is a unit of energy that measures how much energy food provides to the body. The body needs calories to function properly.

Students learn about nutrition facts food labels including comparing labels and all the important information found on nutrition facts food labels.

Students will pick their favorite items off the McDonald's menu and evaluate the food label for each item them choose. This lesson was developed by Amber DiGiore as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Many fast food restaurants are offering more healthier choices, but it is not always easy to identify them. This lesson offers simple tips for cutting back on the fat and saturated fat in fast food meals while reinforcing the idea that teens can have it their way?a healthier way?when ordering fast food.

Students will discuss their usual beverage choices and read a food label and interpret the nutrition information in regard to beverages.

Attractive packaging and clever advertising often hide the nutritional quality of a food. Students will use food labels to compare the fat content of similar foods so they can make more informed choices. Fat content is the focus of this lesson. Most Americans consume more fat than is recommended. High-fat diets have been linked to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and certain types of cancer.

Students will become familiar with the nutritional value of foods advertised on television and in magazines.

Students are introduced to the ways in which advertising can affect their food choices.

This is a supplemental article that gives food label comparisons. This supplement is to be used with the Nutrition Facts Panel lesson.

Students will explain how to read and interpret the data on a Nutrition Facts panel, identify amounts and types of specific nutrients needed by teens expressed as both absolute values and percentages, and iIllustrate ways in which nutrient information found on product packaging can help them as consumers to make more informed food choices.

Students consider various forms of advertising, then keep logs of the ads and other branded content they encounter in a specified period, and reflect on their experiences with marketing.

Students will read cereal labels to assess their nutritional value and recognize cereals made with whole grains.

In this lesson, students will learn how to read a food label. They will have to find information about ingredients, calories, and nutrition.

In this lesson students will recognize the importance of eating whole grains and identify a variety of healthy foods they can eat with pasta.

Children will use food labels to compare foods and make healthy choices based on the trans-fat content of those foods