Healthy Eating Quiz

Choosing to eat healthy foods can help you:

• Build strong bones

• Avoid heart disease

• Avoid diabetes

• All of the above

Why is it important to eat mindfully?

• When we eat mindfully, we enjoy our food more

• We will eat only when we are hungry

• We will make healthy food choices

• All of the above

• None of the above

What are hunger and thirst cues?

• Your body telling you, you are hungry/thirsty

• Dry mouth and throat

• Rumbling stomach

• All of the above

• None of the above

Active living & healthy eating work together to:

• Help us maintain a healthy weight

• Improve your dental health

• Keep our hormones in balance

• All of the above

• None of the above

Our food choices affect the environment:

• Because food is often transported great distances using fossil fuels

• Because it often has lots of plastic packaging

• Because raising agriculture takes lots of water and land.

• All of the above

Which beverage should we choose most often:

• Milk

• 100% fruit juice

• Water

• Sport Drink

How do our emotions affect our food choices?

• We may eat to comfort ourselves

• We may eat cake or ice cream to celebrate

• We may not eat if we are upset

• All of the above

Which is not a food choice that helps the environment?

• Meatless Mondays

• Fish on Fridays

• Buy local

• Farm-to-table

The media influences our food choices by:

• Celebrity endorsements

• Product placements on TV and in movies

• Ads on social media and TV

• All of the above

• None of the above

A food allergy is your body's immune system reacting to certain foods

• True

• False