Does advertising influence your choices of foods?
Record on audio tape or videotape a food commercial.
As a class, listen to or watch the tape, and then discuss the commercial's effectiveness.
Buy the advertised food and study the nutritional label on the package.
Is it really as good as the commercial says it is?
Compare the nutritional value of meals from various cultures.
Calculate the total calories and nutritional content of a typical American meal.
Look through ethnic cookbooks and create dinner menus that reflect Chinese, Mexican,and Italian meals.
Tally the total calories and nutritional content of these dinners.
Which meal might be the healthiest?