Do you understand what healthy eating is?
General purpose: To inform
Specific purpose: To inform the listeners on what is involved in defining healthy eating, healthy lifestyle and nutritional requirements at various stages of life. The speech will also inform the readers of the lifestyle diseases and eating disorders that can result as a result of unhealthy diets.
Central idea: To encourage healthy eating and lifestyle.
Introduction
Attention material
I. Sixty percent of Americans do not consume a healthy diet leading to rising incidences of lifestyle disorders
II. Discuss what healthy food is.
Define carbohydrates giving credible examples.
Define proteins giving credible examples.
Define vitamins and minerals giving credible examples.
III. Explain the constitution of a healthy diet.
Body
I. How does one achieve a healthy lifestyle?
The importance of balanced diet.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid (show picture).
Explain what BMI is (Body Mass Index)- (show BMI table)
Achieving healthy weight- calculating BMI.
II. Lifestyle Diseases
The role of diet in lifestyle diseases.
Describe the role of diet in the following diseases: obesity; arteriosclerosis; heart disease; cancer; diabetes; stroke.
IV. What are eating disorders?
Briefly explain how eating disorders occur:
Anorexia nervosa (show picture)
Bulimia
V. Dietary Needs at Different Life Stages
Nutritional requirements during infancy
Nutritional requirements during childhood
Nutritional requirements during adolescence
Nutritional requirements during adulthood
Nutritional requirements during pregnancy
Nutritional requirements during old age
Conclusion
Summarize all material
Show the relationship between unhealthy diet and lifestyle diseases.
Emphasize the importance of nutritional requirements at each stage of life.
References
Gregson S. (2000). Healthy Eating. Minnesota: Capestone Press
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, (2011). Body Mass Index Tables. Available at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/bmi_tbl.htm
Samuels, S.E., Craypo L., Boyle M., Crawford P., Yance A., & Flores G. (2010). The California Endowment’s Healthy Eating, Active Communities Program: A Midpoint Review. American Journal of Public Health, 100 (11), 2114-2123.
Walker, A. (2005). Eat, Play, and be Healthy: the Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating. New York: McGraw Hill.
VISUAL AIDS
Figure of a Healthy Eating Pyramid
BMI Table
Figure of anorexic patient
