Learning doesn't just end after you've written the paper.

Consider researching and completing one of the following options.

Feel free to complete more than one project.

Extend Your Learning:

• Compare your diet to a healthier or less nutritious diet.
• Research one of the nutrition-related diseases suggested in the film. How does the disease affect people? How can good nutrition prevent this disease? Present your findings to the class.
• Create a plan to submit to the schoolboard to improve the cafeteria food at your school by creating a comparison chart of what is served at your school and healthier substitute foods. Be sure to include costs. Go to the Natural Ovens Bakery site, the company helping to create healthier meals for the students at Appleton Central Alternative School, to download and read the school nutritional suggestions [.pdf file] as mentioned in the SuperSize Me. Then, write a letter to your schoolboard explaining why the foods at your school should change. Be sure to include your chart.
• Create one of the recipes suggested from the Natural Ovens Bakery site and bring samples for the class to try.
• Create a PowerPoint presentation suggesting alternative foods for students at your school. Check the Nutritional Whole Fresh Food Guide for suggestions. Present your suggestions to the class.

Additional Online Articles:

• The 1996 Nutrition Action quiz - food and food habits
• It's up to you : taking responsibility for your health is easy if you are wealthy. The poor, on the other hand, often lack the assets, diet, exercise and support systems that are necessary for well-being - Statistical Data Included
• Insight 25: September 2001: report card on the diet quality of children ages 2 to 9
• African American parents can intervene in the child's nutrition
• 10 Biggest Killers of Blacks
• Good Health Is Essential To The Good Life - African-Americans
• A simple meal plan emphasizing healthy food choices is as effective as an exchange-based meal plan for urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes - OBJECTIVE -- To compare a simple meal plan emphasizing healthy food choices with a traditional exchange-based meal plan in reducing [HbA.sub.1c] levels in urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes.
• California Latino 5 a Day Campaign Holds Public Policy Forum to Take Action to Reverse Latino Health Epidemic in Fresno
• The association between multiple domains of discrimination and self-assessed health: a multilevel analysis of Latinos and blacks in four low-income New York city neighborhoods
• Food usage among Mexican-American, Cuban, and Puerto Rican adults: findings from the Hispanic HANES - Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
• Acculturation Erodes the Diet Quality of U.S. Hispanics - Brief Article
• Clinical Topics in Hispanic Health
• Topics in Minority Health Prevalence of Overweight for Hispanics -- United States, 1982-1984
• SCENARIO – poor diet in the community. Obesity affects Hispanic children disproportionately
  

Further Links to Consider:

• SuperSize Me Movie Website
  Learn more about the movie, see the awards, view the trailer, read about the director, read press reviews, post a message on the message board, contact the makers of the movie, or play the hamburger game.
• How has the Food Pyramid changed in the last few years?
• Nutri-Link
  Diet Info, Body Mass Index, Calrie Intake Calculator
• Teen Health FX
  Body/Height/Weight, Vegetarianism, Exercise & Sports, Spot Reducing/Increasing, Eating Healthy, Weight Loss/Gain & Diets, Growth & Development, Supplements & Performance Enhancers, Aches/Pains/Injuries