Preparing to Cook Sustainably: Healthy Eating Patterns, Meal Planning, and Shopping
CHAPTER 2
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completion of the lab, students should be able to:
- Identify evidence-based guidelines for general healthful eating in the USDA’s 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and the MyPlate tool.
- Understand the DGA provides three healthy eating patterns:
- US-Style Eating Pattern
- Mediterranean-Style Eating Pattern
- Vegetarian Eating Pattern
- Understand healthful meal planning and sustainable shopping strategies.
- Understand healthful portion sizes.
- Understand how to read the Nutrition Facts Label.
- Identify marketing terms and labels and understand their meanings.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Current Dietary Recommendations
“What foods should I eat?” You can make informed and satisfying food choices that will contribute to your overall health and wellness by following evidence-based healthy eating patterns. Although people may find it easier to focus on specific nutrients, such as “only choose low-fat foods,” there is ongoing research on the synergistic effects of eating a wide variety of whole foods.
Synergistic Effects of Whole Foods
According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, “…dietary components of an eating pattern can have interactive, synergistic, and potentially cumulative relationships, such that the eating pattern may be more predictive of overall health status and disease risk than individual foods or nutrients.”
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