Analysing Food Choices Assignment

To assess your knowledge in relation to the ‘Basic Nutrition’ unit in your HPE workbook, you
are going to analyse popular diets by performing the following task:

Research and critically analyse a ‘Fad Diet’ or ‘Alternative Diet.’ Then answer
questions in relation to basic nutritional requirements for positive physical
development.

Choose one of the following Fad Diets:

 Grapefruit Diet
 The five-bite diet
 5/2 Diet
 The Baby Food Diet
 The Paleo diet

Or research a diet of your own that you are interested in but check with your teacher first.
Then answer the following questions.

1. What is the definition of a ‘Fad Diet’?

2. Summarise the key components of your specific ‘Fad Diet.’

3. Refer to the AGHE and Australian Healthy Eating Pyramid. What food sources are
missing from the diet and how could this affect your body and its development?

4. Discuss the diet’s impact on mental and physical health.

Your assignment should be a presented in a multimedia format and submitted via Learning
Tasks. You will find a rubric on the opposite side of this sheet, detailing how marks will be
allocated for this assessment task.
Domain: HPEFT Unit: Term Three - Basic Nutrition

Subject: Year 8 Health Strand: Analysing Food Choices

2.2.4 Justifies the impact 2.3.3 Justifies the impact

of food choices on of food choices on Above
physical health mental health 17-18 A+
Level

1.2.3 Argues why the 2.1.3 Evaluated diet's 2.2.3 Analyses the 2.3.2 Analyses the 3.1.3 Justifies the
diet is popular despite food sources linking cause-and-effect cause-and-effect omission of food sources 15-16 A
publicised health back to AGHE relationship between relationship between in relation the diet. 14 B+
concerns food choices and food choices and mental 13 B
physical health health 12 C+

1.2.2 Highlights positive 3.1.2 Examines which

and negative aspects of food sources in the ‘Eat
the diet. More’ level of the 11 C
At Level
pyramid are omitted from 10 D+
Quality Criteria the diet.

1.1.2 Provides an 1.2.1 Identifies key 2.1.2 Applies food 2.2.2 Describes the 2.3.1 Describes the 3.1.1 Identifies where
example of what is in inclusions/exclusions of sources to AGHE relationship between relationship between diet’s food sources fall 9 D
included in the diet. the diet food choices and food choices and mental within the pyramid 8 E
physical health health 4-7 UG

1.1.1 Names fad diet 2.1.1 Lists food sources 2.2.1 Lists negative
in diet impacts of food choices Below
1-3 UG
Level

Insufficient Evidence Insufficient Evidence Insufficient Evidence Insufficient Evidence Insufficient Evidence Insufficient Evidence 0 UG

2.1 Appraise diet's 2.2 Discuss diet's 2.3 Discuss diet's 3.1 Analyse food
1.2 Investigate key Cut
Indicators 1.1 Define specific diet food sources, using impacts on physical impacts on mental sources using Healthy Grade Level
components of diet Points
AGHE health health Eating Pyramid

3. Plan and use

strategies and
1. Evaluate health information from a range of resources to enhance
Skills & 2. Develop skills to evaluate health information and express health
sources and apply to health decisions and the health, safety and
Knowledge concerns (VCHPEP129)
situations (VCHPEP148) wellbeing of their
communities
(VCHPEP130)