Topic: Healthy eating
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the importance of a healthy diet
Thesis: Diet is one of the most significant influences on your overall health.
Introduction
- Attention-getter: [project photo of myself and mother on screen] “Last year, I lost my mother to heart disease—a tragedy that could have been prevented…” [pause]
- Thesis: Your diet is one of the most significant influences on your overall health.
- Preview: Today, I’m going to talk to you about the healthiest food options, how to determine how much to eat and what happens to your body when you don’t eat healthy foods. [pause]
Body
- Healthiest food options [eye contact]
- Vegetables
- Fruits
- Protein
[TRANSITION: So, choosing healthy foods is important to overall health, but how much you eating can be almost as important]
- Determining how much to eat
- Calories [definition]
- Influences
- How active are you?
- Age
- Children
- Adults
- Older adults
- Gender
- Male
- Female
- Calculating your caloric intake [show chart]
[TRANSITION: Choosing good foods in moderation is the secret to a healthy diet. Let’s look at what the body does when we do not maintain a healthy intake of food.]
- Consequences of not eating healthy [use a more serious tone]
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Other health conditions
Conclusion
- Summary
- Closure: Eating a healthy diet is one of the best ways to ensure your longevity and quality of life.
- Final statement: Sometimes I wonder, had my mother made different choices, she might still be with us today. [pause]
Bibliography
Alberts, Aria. (2014). Guide to Healthy Eating. New York, NY: Random House.
Jackson, LaKisha. (2013, December 10). Making bad food choices will kill you. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com.
Tabata, Yoshi. (2010). Determining the caloric intake of healthy human adults. Science & Nutrition, 12, 223-227.
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