Healthy Eating In 21 Century

Describe the Australian guide to healthy eating document

The Australian guide to healthy eating includes the necessary dietary requirements for an average adult to follow for a balanced diet. It’s a chart broken up into the 5 food groups, sizes relative to how much you should be having.

Describe the challenge Australians face when trying to follow this guide

Some reasons for why it can be hard to follow the guide is money, groceries are probably more expensive than cheap fast food, work, they may find it more convenient to buy take out for dinner than having to prepare a meal for dinner after a long day of work, and convenience, its just so much easier to buy take out. Examine why two boys of the same age would have different energy requirements. Use source A and B for reference. The most obvious reason when looking at the sources is that one boy is very active whilst the other isn’t. they would have different energy requirements because the active boy would use a lot more energy throughout the day and the other is only engaging in palliative activities. The last difference would be different body types, weight and height.

Examine how fast food outlets target young people in their marketing

Fast food outlets often show happy youthful and fit consumers in their advertisement. Even though it isn’t technically false advertising, it creates a different perception than what is true when you consume such foods. McDonalds for example, has Happy Meals for kids and they often partner with new movies and promote them via selling toys based on kids favourite new movies. Propose how the media can influence the eating behaviours of Australians Fast food chains often get sponsored or promoted by the media, similarly to how celebrities sponsor or promote a product. Everyone holds so much value in these people and will swear by them, so naturally, whatever they have and they do we want as well.