Evaluation 2: Planning a Healthy Diet

Answer each of the following questions briefly but completely.

1. Discuss the reasons why health care professionals should practice the rules of good
nutrition themselves.
2. How do food habits originate?
3. What effects does environment have on particular food habits? When do the effects
of a new environment improve diets? When do they impair?
4. From personal experience, explain why certain foods are enjoyed more than others
that are commonly available in the area?
5. Discuss vegetarian diets. Are they safe? Explain.
6. Define a balance diet.
7. How one might include milk in a diet of a 4-year old who refuses to drink milk?
8. Why would yogurt be a good snack or dessert for a pregnant women?
9. Plan a Good Friday menu for a client of the Roman Catholic faith.
10. using a restaurant menu, choose breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Check the selection
of foods against MyPyramid. Are they balanced meals? Discuss the problems that
people who eat all their meals in restaurants might have in maintaining a well-balanced
diet.