Title: Identify methods for determining a healthy body weight.
Course: Nutrition and Wellness (19253-18) > Section: Investigating Principles of Nutrition

Identification should include

- tools used to evaluate body weight (e.g., body mass index, growth charts, body fat analyzer, waist/hip ratio)
- the relationship of healthy body weight to variables such as age, gender, height, and body frame size.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How can we know that our evaluation of our own body weight is accurate?
- What are the relationships between body weight and self-image?
- Why do young people place too much importance on physical appearance, particularly body weight?
- How does the media affect our ideas of what is attractive in terms of body weight and physical appearance?
- Why are teenage girls at greater risk than teenage boys for dangerous reactions to problems with body weight?
- What are the physiological reactions of the body to binging and purging? To other severe attempts to control body weight?
- What are the most effective, healthy ways to manage body weight?

Communication

- What communication skills help us interpret information about body weight?
- How can we publicize the facts related to sensible weight loss?
- How can technology help us set and implement goals related to healthy body weight?

Leadership

- What are the consequences of going on diets that are not nutritionally sound?
- Why are harmful diets published?
- What can we do to discourage fad dieting among friends and family?
- How can we help others understand the relationship of health body weight to variables such as age, gender, and height?

Management

- How can we evaluate the effectiveness of weight-loss diets?
- What can families do about the national problem of children who are either overweight or undernourished?
- What are the effects of herbal supplements that are advertised for weight loss?