Nutrition Prescription- Healthy Population- PPT, Games and Worksheets! UPDATED 2026

UPDATED TO ALIGN WITH 2025 USDA DIETARY GUIDELINES!

This collection of materials covers the basics of designing an eating plan for healthy populations. It teaches students to calculate a daily calorie goal and then utilize the USDA Dietary Guidelines to create an eating plan for a normal healthy population.

Students will learn how to calculate a resting metabolic rate of an individual and then use this to determine a person's Total Daily Energy Expenditure. The lesson also reviews the current Dietary Guidelines and includes highlights as well as the general guidelines presented.

Included in the download:

• interactive Powerpoint
• "Lunch Through the Decades" Game (typically used as a hook)
• "Cheat Sheet" with formulas for calculating
• "Burn Baby, Burn" worksheet (for exploring RMR) (answer key included)
• "My Eating Evaluation" activity/worksheet (for exploring Dietary Guidelines)
• 2 Nutrition Case Studies (for practicing TDEE calculating and creating diet plans) (answer key included)
• Instructional video (one for the PowerPoint and one for supplemental activities)

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