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"Fad" Diets The Quick Fix
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Losing Weight the "Unhealhy" Way? You are to prepare a presentation with the following information: 1. Name of diet 2. Weight loss claims - how much in how long 3. Describe the diet in general. 4. **Analyze the nutritional value of the diet in terms of (A) calories, (B) food groups, and (C) specific nutrients.** You should use your knowledge of energy balance, food group information from choosemyplate.gov, the macronutrients, water and vitamin/mineral food sources/deficiencies (packets). 5A. Do they claim it's scientifically proven? 5B. If so, find and explain the scientific research endorsing diet; include who conducted the research. 6. Is exercise ignored, downplayed, or recognized as an important part of the diet? 7. Complications/issues with using this diet (side effects). 8. Who profits from you being on this diet? 9. Other interesting or relevant information (celebrity endorsements, testimonials and pictures, etc) 10. What characteristics of a fad diet does your diet have? 11. Pros/Cons of Your Diet / What's the bottom line? Other Requirements: Your PPT should include: Headings, pictures, different fonts, backgrounds, transitions, animations (under slide show in the tool bar). Fonts should be no less than 30 point. Your should use two or more websites in this project. Include links used on last slide of PPT presentation. Your presentation should be you speaking to us about your diet. The infomation is not hard to comprehend, you just need to know it to present it. You will have 3 in class days to complete. You will be presenting your diet to the class starting Thursday, 5/14 |
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