School Lunches

1. Foods that are served in wrappers or plastic are, for the most part, nutritious foods that are good for you.

Circle one:           True                                       False

2. Eating foods that are high in fat and sugar can lead to

                a. diabetes

                b. scoliosis

                c. muscular dystrophy

                d. hay fever

3. Our national school lunch program began over forty years ago, back then lunch ladies actually _______________.

                a. got paid more than most men

                 b. joined the war effort

                c. cooked fresh food for students

                d. worked in dangerous conditions

4. Foods that are processed, packaged, frozen, and shipped to our school are

                a. more healthy than the salad bar

                b. the most expensive

                c. sold by big businesses

                d. fresh from local farms

5.  _________________is a major food brand that sells frozen prepackaged foods to our nation’s schools.

                a. Holyfield

                b. Mayweather

                c. Rousey

                d. Tyson

6. Corporations and big business are allowed to sell food to schools like ours in part because the _____________ allows them to do so.

                a. CIA

                b. CDC

                c. USDA

                d. FIFA

7. Ann suggests that we ban all of the following from our National School Lunch program except:

                a. trans fats

                b. high fructose corn syrup

                c. food colorings

                d. hormones

                e. antibiotics

                f. omega threes

                g. processed foods

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8. Should school districts not allow ‘junk food’ at school and aim to provide students with only healthy, fresh food for lunch? Why or Why not? What are ramifications (positives/negatives) of your decision?

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Source: http://www.chowhound.com/videos/obsessives/obsessives-school-lunch-revolutionary

Carbs

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Carbohydrates Video:

1.       Which of these has the least carbohydrates? Circle one

a.       Can of Soda

b.      Bowl of Rice

c.       Roll of Bread

d.      All pretty much the same

2.       True       or            False      Carbohydrates can be simple or complex.

3.       Glucose, Fructose, Sucrose, Maltose, Galactose and Lactose are all types of

a. carbohydrates

b. proteins

c. sugars

d. preservatives

4.       Simple carbs have…

a.       Two types of sugars strung together

b.      Monosaccharides

c.       Disaccharides

d.      All of the above

e.      B and C only

5.       True       or            False      Glycemic index is the amount that a particular food raises the sugar level in your blood.

6.       Foods with a high glycemic index will

a.       Give you a quick burst of energy

b.      Are considered very healthy

c.       Take a long time to digest

d.      Have a strong beta bond between the sugars

7.       Insulin is a hormone produced by our

a.       heart

b.      brain

c.       pancreas

d.      spleen

8.       Insulin travels through our blood stream, attaches to our blood cells and helps

a.       Our body convert sugar to energy

b.      Our lungs convert air into carbon dioxide

c.       Our hair and nails grow

9.       When your body is resistant to insulin the blood cells won’t let the insulin in, with no insulin in the blood cells the sugar stays in your blood causing you to have

a.       High blood sugar

b.      Low blood sugar

10.   When we eat our bodies digest the food giving us _____________________, this is our metabolism at work, if we eat foods that are high in sugar with chemical bonds that are easy to break down it can lead to metabolic __________________. Some of the effects of this condition are high blood _____________________, high _____________________ pressure, increased waist size, and type two __________________________. As much as 32% of the population in the __________________ ___________________ has metabolic syndrome.

Source: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-carbohydrates-impact-your-health-richard-j-wood