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Essential Question  What is happening to food and our relationship to it?  Are we using food to comfort ourselves? Do we use food as a reward?  Overview  We need food in order to survive, but our relationship with food has actually become more emotionally connected. 

Challenge  Eat healthier to have a healthier life.  Guiding Questions   Why does stress lead people to over eat? Why are processed foods taking over the food market? How does food play into eating disorders? What is it about food that scares people? People are so obsessed with weight why does it seem that most of all foods make people gain weight as oppose to maintaining a healthy weight? Why is America the most over weight country in the world? How are children affected by food served at their schools? How is the economy effecting how people in America eat? How much money are we spending on junk food vs. healthy food? Is there any real benefit to eating organic foods? How are other diseases related to processed food? If processed food is causing health problems why does the government allow companies to process food? Why are certain additives allowed in foods and others are not? Are any of these additives addictive? How are food allergies being tied to processed foods? Why is childhood diabetes on the rise? Why is cholesterol on the rise? Why are there so many food specific diseases such as salmonella? How does what time you eat affect your diet?  <span style="font-family: 'Myriad Set Bold','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Myriad Set Bold','serif';">Guiding Activities <span style="font-family: 'Myriad Set Bold','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Myriad Set Text','serif';">Contacting the FDA, school boards, researching other catering firms, disclose all nutrition information, petitions, speaking with counselors that deal directly with eating disorders, nutritionists, education about food, starting blogs, getting a list of what constitutes processed foods, keeping a journal of what children are eating, parent program that teaches healthy eating and the bad long term health effects of junk food, contact Rachel Ray maybe get a 30 minute meal book and hand out to parents, make a school cookbook, have cooking classes, have a nutritionist take you to the grocery store and point out what is good and what is bad for your health, work less, cooking groups that take turns cooking for each other, clubs that focus on a healthy lifestyle. <span style="font-family: 'Myriad Set Bold','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Myriad Set Bold','serif';">Guiding Resources <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Myriad Set Text','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Myriad Set Text','serif';">FDA Rachel Ray Nutritionist Counselors (Eating Disorders) School or Work environments <span style="font-family: 'Myriad Set Bold','serif';">

<span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'Myriad Set Bold','serif';">Solution/Action <span style="font-family: 'Myriad Set Text','serif';"> Speakers Parent Workshops Counselors Cooking Classes Coupons for healthy foods Exercise clubs Plan Meals After-school sports programs