Food Guide Pyramid Curriculum Available

[Joanne Ikeda]

>NEW ADULT NUTRITION CURRICULUM UNIT AVAILABLE!

>

>Title: "The Food Guide Pyramid"

>

>Authors: Joan Helzer, M.A., R.D. and Lucia Kaiser, Ph.D., R.D.

>University of California Cooperative Extension, Department of Nutrition,

>Davis, California  

>

>Date produced: September 1997

>

>Description: "The Food Guide Pyramid" curriculum unit is divided into three

>sections. The 96- page self-teaching, train-the-trainer "Curriculum Unit for

>Nutrition Education Assistants" includes background material on the Food

>Guide Pyramid, appendices, and suggested lesson plans. The "Supplement to

>the Curriculum Unit" includes references and a 25-page resource list of

>Pyramid materials. The third section contains 70 pages of camera-ready

>materials.

>

>Audience: EFNEP, FSNEP, WIC; adult consumers. Materials include handouts and

>activities for low-literacy and higher-literacy audiences. Language and

>graphics are adapted to English- speaking, Spanish-speaking, and Southeast

>Asian audiences. All camera-ready materials are in both Spanish and English.

>Many are in Vietnamese, and some are in Hmong.

>

>To contact authors: 

>Joan Helzer, 530-754-9651, jehelzer at ucdavis.edu

>Lucia Kaiser, 530-754-9063, llkaiser at ucdavis.edu  

>

>Cost:

>#5400 - The Food Guide Pyramid Curriculum Unit for Nutrition Education

>Assistants - $5

>#5410 - The Food Guide Pyramid Supplement to Curriculum Unit - $2

>#5420 - Camera-Ready Materials for Food Guide Pyramid Unit - $5

>Or, purchase all three for $10.

>

>To order, send check payable to UC REGENTS to:

>Jim Mulroney

>University of California

>EFNEP State Office-3253 Meyer Hall

>Department of Nutrition

>One Shields Avenue

>Davis, CA 965616-8669

>Or call 530-754-9885

>

>The curriculum unit comes three-hole punched (except for the camera-ready

>materials) and shrink wrapped. Please allow four to six weeks for delivery.

>

>See below for additional information:

>

>List of Headings in the Table of Contents of #5400

>

>INTRODUCTION  

>	How to Use This Unit

>	What You Should Know After Studying This Unit 

>	Concerns People Frequently Express 

>	What Do You Already Know? 

>

>PART I—THE FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID

>	What Is a Food Guide? 

>	The Dietary Guidelines for Americans 

>	Development of the Food Guide Pyramid

>	What Are the Food Guide Pyramid's Nutritional Goals?

>	What Are the Food Guide Pyramid's Key Concepts? 

>	Why Follow the Food Guide Pyramid?

>	Food Groups of the Food Guide Pyramid (Variety)

>	What's in the Pyramid's Tip?

>	Exercise 1 

>	Food Group Serving Sizes (Moderation) 

>	Food Group Nutrients 

>	Number of Servings Recommended From Each Food Group (Proportionality and

>Moderation) 

>	Exercise 2

>	How Does the Diet of the Average American Compare to the Diet Recommended

>by the Pyramid?

>	Fat and Added Sugar  

>	How Can My Child's Diet Fit Into the Pyramid?

>	Using the Pyramid With Some Ethnic and Population Groups

>	Exercise 3

>	Exercise 4

>

>See What You Have Learned 

>

>PART II—APPENDICES

>Appendix A—Answers to:  

>	What Do You Already Know? and See What You Have Learned  

>	Exercise 1 

>	Exercise 2 

>	Exercise 3 

>	Exercise 4 

>Appendix B—Glossary 

>Appendix C—Hard-to-Categorize Foods 

>Appendix D—Tables 9 and 10 

>Appendix E—The Five Food Groups—Low/Moderate/High-Fat and Added-Sugar Choices  

>

>PART III—SUGGESTED LESSON PLANS

>Overview of Lesson

>Leading the Lesson 

>Continuation of Lesson Plan for a 60-Minute Class

>Suggestions for a 15-Minute Lesson

>Lesson Plans for Ethnic-Group Audiences

>

>LIST OF TABLES

>Table 1. What Counts As One Serving on the Food Guide Pyramid?

>Table 2. Major Nutrients in Food Groups

>Table 3. Sample Daily Diets at Three Calorie Levels 

>Table 4. Recommended Number of Servings Per Day for Children Ages 2-10

>Table 5. Sample Menu for a Three-Year-Old Child 

>Table 6. Extra Food Group Servings Needed for Pregnancy

>Table 7. Extra Food Group Servings Needed for Breast-Feeding 

>Table 8. Sample Daily Diet for Lacto-Ovo-Vegetarians

>Table 9. Circumstances Where Supplements Are Needed 

>Table 10. Circumstances Where Supplements May Be Needed 

>Table 11. Sample Menu to Evaluate

>Table 12. Sample Menu Evaluation

>Table 13. Sample Latino Menu to Evaluate

>Table 14. Sample Latino Menu Evaluation 

>Table 15. Sample Vietnamese Menu to Evaluate 

>Table 16. Sample Vietnamese Menu Evaluation 

>

>LIST OF FIGURES

>Figure 1. The Food Guide Pyramid 

>Figure 2. The Average American's Top-Heavy Pyramid 

>Figure 3. Fat and Added-Sugar Symbols

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>Supplement #5410 and Camera-Ready Materials #5420

>

>Additional materials for "The Food Guide Pyramid" curriculum unit are in

>three parts:

>

>REFERENCES (in #5410)

>The reference list includes all sources used in the development of "The Food

>Guide Pyramid" curriculum unit and the supplement plus additional references

>on the development and use of the Food Guide Pyramid.

>

>RESOURCE LIST OF PYRAMID MATERIALS (in #5410)

>This section includes:

>1. A list of "Suggested Items to Order for Use With ‘The Food Guide Pyramid'

>Unit."

>2. An explanation of differences between USDA and some other

>agencies/materials concerning what's put in the Pyramid's tip.

>3. A "Resource List of Pyramid Materials" available for an adult audience.

>Information about each item includes a name, a description, the source/cost,

>and comments (e.g., critique of general contents, literacy level, and

>appropriate audience). 

>

>CAMERA-READY MATERIAL (#5420)

>Camera-ready materials for teaching include materials which can be used for

>activities, handouts, and/or overheads plus suggested recipes to use for the

>lesson.

>

>

>

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>Joan E. Helzer, MA, RD

>Staff Research Associate

>University of California

>EFNEP State Office

>Department of Nutrition

>One Shields Avenue

>Davis, CA 95616-8783

>Office: (530) 754-9651    Home: (707) 944-0576    FAX: 530-752-7588

>E-mail: jehelzer at ucdavis.edu

>

>

>

Joanne P. Ikeda,MA,RD
Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Specialist
Department of Nutritional Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
CA 94720-3104

Phone (510)642-2790
FAX (510)642-0535
E-mail  jikeda at socrates.berkeley.edu