What is the theory behind this Healthy Eating Therapy worksheet?
This worksheet is based on the ‘54321Go’ program developed by CLOCC, which is a public health initiative aimed at helping develop healthy habits in families. The numbers in the title represent the healthy habits that kids have to adopt to improve their overall health. Healthy eating refers to the consumption of a balanced diet that ensures the intake of all vital vitamins and minerals needed to maintain optimum physical health and avoid deficiencies or illnesses.
How will the worksheet help?
The worksheet will provide caregivers a simple guideline that they can use to ensure their kids adopt healthy habits that are good for their mental and physical health. It will also help kids with tracking their newly learned habits everyday for 30 days.
How to use the worksheet?
This worksheet can be used in mental and physical health awareness campaigns in schools, colleges and hospitals. Kids can use the tracker to view their progress and also motivate themselves to follow the recommendations. Caregivers can decide on the rewards and add them to the tracker.
Healthy Eating therapy Worksheet
Did you know adopting a healthy lifestyle is as easy as 5-4-3-2-1-Go!. It simply means:
- Eating 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day
- Drinking 4 servings of water a day
- Consuming 3 servings of low-fat dairy a day
- Watching 2 or less hours of screen time a day
- Doing 1 or more hours of physical activity a day
Do you take this challenge for 30 days? By the end of the day colour each box to track your progress! Remember to collect your reward by the end of every ten days.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Great job! Your reward is _________________________________________________________________ | |||||||||
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| You are amazing! Your reward is _____________________________________________________________ | |||||||||
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| Well done! You made it. Here is your ultimate reward ______________________________________________________ |
References
Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC). (2018) 5-4-3-2-1 Go!® .
You can download this worksheet here.