Changing a nation’s eating habits is a Herculean task, but the physical and financial health of the United States depends on it. You work for the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, and it’s your job to educate people on the dangers of unhealthy eating and the changes they can make to eat more balanced and healthful diets.

Your task: Visit real-timeupdates.com/ebc13, select Student Assignments, and download Chapter 14 Case (Dietary Guidelines for Americans). With a team assigned by your instructor, develop a 10- to 15-minute presentation that conveys the key points from Chapter 3 of the Guidelines, “Food and Food Components to Reduce.”

The objectives of your presentation are to alert people to the dangers of excessive consumption of the five components discussed in the chapter and to let them know what healthy levels of consumption are. This chapter has a lot of information, but you don’t need to pack it all into your presentation; you can assume that the chapter will be available as a handout to anyone who attends your presentation. Draft speaking notes that someone outside your team could use to give the presentation. You can use images from the Guidelines PDF, the websites of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or a nongovernment source such as Creative Commons. Cite all your image sources, and make sure you follow the usage and attribution guidelines for any photos you find on nongovernment sites.