Food Advertisements – What Makes Us Buy It?
Food product choice is overwhelming as well as TV commercials and print advertisements that want to sell their food products to us. Who to believe? How to choose? Obviously, it’s up to each of us to decide what we eat but if we’re constantly bombarded with images of food every time we pick up a magazine then we’re going to be swayed in what we choose So what’s behind the advertisements? It is delicious: Is it really as delicious as it looks? It is better than anything: Pepsi: Dunkin Donuts: It is relaxing: Heineken: Break tout Choco: “ “ It is right for you: Susu Cimory/Cisarua Mountain Dairy: Negroni: “ “ Masterfoods Bounty Chocolate: “ “ It makes you better: McDonald: “ “ PowerBar: “ “ It is natural: New York Fries: “ “ Big Gulp ice cream: “ “ Nejma Sunflower Cooking Oil: It is fun: Pepsi Twist: It defends you: Verum Halsofil: “ “ It is cool: McDonald’s: Tiger Beer: Masterfoods Skittles: Perrier: It is HUGE : Snickers: It is what you want it to be: Miracel Whip: “ “ Heinz: Thick Heinz Fit Ketchup: “ “
About Us
On June 2, 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack released the federal government’s new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices. MyPlate is a new generation icon with the intent to prompt consumers to think about building a healthy plate at meal times and to seek more information to help them do that by going to ChooseMyPlate.gov. The new MyPlate icon emphasizes the fruit, vegetable, grains, protein foods, and dairy groups. Later in 2011, MiPlato was launched as the Spanish-language version of MyPlate. ChooseMyPlate.gov provides practical information to individuals, health professionals, nutrition educators, and the food industry to help consumers build healthier diets with resources and tools for dietary assessment, nutrition education, and other user-friendly nutrition information. The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP), an organization of the U.S.
Are Australian children active and eating well? (Media Release)
More physical activity and improved dietary habits are keys to improving the health of Australia’s children. The most comprehensive survey ever taken of Australian children’s diet and activity habits has revealed a picture of a generation where some children are eating a variety of healthy foods and are generally lean and active, while others are filling up on the wrong types of food and spending too long in front of the television. To determine the links between diet, activity and excess weight gain, the 2007 Australian Children’s Nutrition and Physical Activity survey – led by a team of CSIRO Preventative Health Flagship researchers and University of South Australia (UniSA) researchers – monitored children’s body weight, activity levels and the type and volume of foods they eat. UniSA Professor Tim Olds says about one quarter of the children surveyed were overweight or obese. "As a group, teenage girls appeared to be getting insufficient amounts of calcium from foods.
What Are Grains? - Food Groups - ChooseMyPlate.gov - USDA
Any food made from wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley or another cereal grain is a grain product. Bread, pasta, oatmeal, breakfast cereals, tortillas, and grits are examples of grain products. Grains are divided into 2 subgroups, Whole Grains and Refined Grains. Whole grains contain the entire grain kernel ― the bran, germ, and endosperm. Examples include: whole-wheat flour bulgur (cracked wheat) oatmeal whole cornmeal brown rice Refined grains have been milled, a process that removes the bran and germ. Some examples of refined grain products are: white flour de-germed cornmeal white bread white rice Most refined grains are enriched.
FoodChoices
HEIA has been delighted to work with Xyris Software on this resource. HEIA‘s role has been to write the curriculum components in consultation with practising teachers and curriculum officers across Australia. Many of those consulted have used the first edition ‘Food choices the IT way‘ for years. Students have also provided input resulting in the colourful new designs — how quickly we found out that adult ideas are so different to student ideas! We look forward to providing reviews on the new resource in 2009. As a practising home economics teacher with a passion for IT and a desire to assist students make wise food choices, this is one of the most exciting resources I have seen. Review of 1st edition By: Miriam McDonald, From: Journal of Home Economics Institute of Australia, Vol 8, No 3, 2001
