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    The poem describes a child who believes they eat a balanced diet because they eat equal amounts of sweets like brownies, jellybeans, candy canes on both the left and right sides. However, the mother disagrees since the diet only consists of sweets and does not include foods from major food groups like fruits and vegetables. While the child thinks the diet is balanced, it does not actually meet nutritional recommendations.

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    The poem describes a child who believes they eat a balanced diet because they eat equal amounts of sweets like brownies, jellybeans, candy canes on both the left and right sides. However, the mother disagrees since the diet only consists of sweets and does not include foods from major food groups like fruits and vegetables. While the child thinks the diet is balanced, it does not actually meet nutritional recommendations.

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    A Balanced Diet

    I eat a balanced diet,


    I do it day and night –
    A pound of brownies on my left,
    A pound upon my right.

    And filling up my right hand,


    With clear and certain heft,
    A twelve-ounce bag of jellybeans.
    The same is on my left.

    A candy cane in one hand,


    And likewise in the other.
    There are equal sweets on either
    side,
    A big frown from my mother.

    I eat a balanced diet,


    But mother disagrees.
    I just don’t understand it.
    She’s so darned hard to please.

    By: Robert Scotellaro

    Activity: In health, when learning about nutrition and proper diet, read this poem as a class and
    compare it to the food pyramid. Do the foods listed in the poem coincide with what is
    recommended on the food pyramid? Why or why not? Ask students to tell what foods should
    have been included in the poem to make a “balanced diet”? For an extra challenge, create a
    whole new poem following the same pattern as Scotellaro’s that follows nutrition
    recommendations.

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