Plan for November
Warm up: (46) Diet and Nutrition Glossary Quiz
Questions that came up in the beginning of class 47:
- What are food related diseases?
- Have they increased since World War II?
- If the answer to the question above is yes, why would that be?
- There seems to be so much information publicly available, is this helping people? If not, why not? If yes, how?
- How can people decide which information on the internet can be trusted?
- How has the food landscape changed over the last decades?
- How have obesity rates changed, since when and where?
- Is artificial sweetener harmful or not?
- What are food and health related myths and how do we know?
- How can dieticians help treat food related diseases?
- What is your favorite food and do you remember what you ate yesterday?
Would you add any?
Notes from 5.11.: Important stuff most people get wrong (follow up to question ‘How much of the food we buy is regional?’) We spoke about questions 5 and 6. Still have 1, 8, and 10, but will also briefly try to answer the others together. 1, 5, 6, 8, and 10 were the ones you chose to discuss in your groups. Other additional questions that came up: When did first supermarkets open and what was there influence on 6.? Why have autoimmune diseases and allergies increased over the last decades? Better diagnostics or changed environment?
Topic: The Job of a Dietician
- What brings people to a dietician?
- What are possible problems they might have?
- What kinds of questions would we ask patients who come for dietary or nutritional advice?
After listing your own questions, check dietician questionaires on the internet and let’s evaluate the questions they offer. (Ex.:Nutrition_and_Eating_Habits_Questionnaire.doc; Dietitian Patient Questionnaire Form Template | Jotform; health-at-work-how-healthy-is-your-diet-questionnaire.pdf)
Sarah Greenfield, a certified (American) dietician goes through a list of questions she was asked. Before we watch, let’s try to answer them beforehand.
- What does a registered dietician do?
- What’s the difference between a nutritionist and a dietician?
- How do you become a dietician and how long does it take?
- What skills to you need to be a dietician?
- How can a dietician help you?
- Should you see a dietician to lose weight?
- What do dieticians wear?
- What are some of the questions you can ask a dietician?
- What do dieticians eat?
- Are dieticians worth it?
A Dietitian Answers Commonly Googled Questions About Dietitians
Body vocabulary
Can you name the 10 organs that belong to the digestive system? How does the German ‘Darm’ translate into English?
How your digestive system works Listen to the TED Ed video and match the numbers below with what they refer to:
- 1 – 2.7;
- 28,800;
- 10
- 30 to 40 m2
- 1.5
- 3
- millions
Check out for further practice Free Anatomy Quiz – General Anatomy Facts – Quiz 1 Another example Free Anatomy Quiz – The Endocrine System, Physiology – Quiz 1
Watch and discuss Kimberly Wilson’s BBC Reel videos The truth behind your favourite flavours – BBC Reel and Food for Thought – BBC Reel ‘The Legacy of Poor Nutrition’
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October 1
We finished with the transcript puzzle. We have a longer break now and will meet again in November.
Plan for the 17th
TED ED on Why are eating disorders so hard to treat and some of the things from below we haven’t done yet like the questions class 47 asked and the sporcle on dietary terms. We will go into the TED Ed intensively, spend time with the vocabulary before watching and put the text together after watching the video.
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Link to Dieticians 2025 | Quizlet
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We met for the first time on August the 20th and got to know each other a little. We spoke about loads of different topics (how many do you remember ;-). Today (September 3) I want to show you ‘around’ a little. But first we will do a little basic food vocabulary (which we did).
We tried to watch the TED Ed on eating disorders, but I couldn’t open it – try again next time. So we looked at a different one instead: Myths you learned in health class | TED-Ed. Clarified what health classes are and stopped at food pyramids and myplate. Question we started discussing: Why do governments (or the US government in this case) feel they have to tell people what or how to eat? We also briefly spoke about the obesity situation in Western countries and possible causes.
Additional to eating disorders: How do teens think about body image, beauty and bullying? | TED Blog
We meet again on September 17.
First meeting – Questionaire
- How many years have you learned English (in school or elsewhere)?
- Do you speak any other languages?
- What is your native language?
- Have you ever been to an English speaking country?
- Have you read any books in English? (e.g. in school, privately)
- Do you read any English magazines or newspapers (paper or online)?
- Have any of your studies as a dietician been in English?
- Have you watched or do you watch English/American etc. films in the original?
- Do you have any favorite series (TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.)? If yes, do you watch any of them in the original?
- Are there any websites related to food, nutrition, and/or health on the internet that you can recommend?
- Have you ever heard of TED talks? If yes, have you watched any?
- Is there any specific area of the English language you feel you need to practice or review?
- What would you like to learn or do in this course?
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Questions that came up in the beginning of class 47:
- What are food related diseases?
- Have they increased since World War II?
- If the answer to the question above is yes, why would that be?
- There seems to be so much information publicly available, is this helping people? If not, why not? If yes, how?
- How can people decide which information on the internet can be trusted?
- How has the food landscape changed over the last decades?
- How have obesity rates changed, since when and where?
- Is artificial sweetener harmful or not?
- What are food and health related myths and how do we know?
- How can dieticians help treat food related diseases?
- What is your favorite food and do you remember what you ate yesterday?
Would you add any?
Take a look at Kimberley Wilson from BBC Reel. The harmful legacy of poor nutrition.
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