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Activity Originally Created By: Lupe Rodriguez

Group Project: Popular Diets

Part of Lesson Plan: Nutrition, Exercise and Weight Management

Activity Overview / Details

Each group will be randomly assigned a diet, from the list below and they will describe the diet plan and how/why it works (based on caloric intake, exercise, reduction of carbs, etc.) Identify populations that would be excluded from this diet (ie Pregancy, DM, and why.

Slim Fast; Body for Life, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, The Zone, South Beach and Atkins.  I use this list, since they are some of the more well known diets.

Materials / Resource

  • Group Project Rubric Group Project Rubric [ Download ] Rubric for project grading
  • Rubricstemplateinterpersonal.doc Rubricstemplateinterpersonal.doc [ Download ] Interpersonal Skills Rubric
  • Body4Life.ppt Body4Life.ppt [ Download ] Sample of student work
  • Weight Manangement.ppt Weight Manangement.ppt [ Download ]
  • Therapeutic Diets.ppt Therapeutic Diets.ppt [ Download ]
  • calories burned.doc calories burned.doc [ Download ] Calorie expenditure rates