HEALTHY LIFESTYLE HOSA Questions and
Answers | 2026 Ultimate Final Review |
Grade A+
• Healthy Eating Patterns -✓✓Refers to the combination of all foods and
beverages a person consumes regularly over time; can be adapted to an individual's
budget, taste preferences, traditions, and cultures, and when paired with regular
physical activity, can help people reach and maintain good health while reducing
risks of chronic disease
• Recommendations -✓✓Unchanged from previous editions, and encourage
Americans to consume healthy foods like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, fat-free
and low-fat dairy products, lean meats, seafood, protein goods, and oils; also
suggest limiting sodium, saturated and trans fats, and added sugars
• Five Overarching Guidelines -✓✓1. Follow a healthy eating pattern across the
lifespan
2. Focus on variety, nutrient-dense foods, and amount
3. Limit calories from added sugars and saturated fats, and reduce sodium intake
4. Shift to healthier food and beverage choices
5. Support healthy eating patterns for all
• How many Americans are overweight or obese? -✓✓2/3, often as a result of
unhealthy diets and a sedentary lifestyle
• Limit consumption of salt -✓✓Ages 14 and over should limit to less than 2,300
mg per day and ages 14 and younger should consume even less; use Nutrition
Facts label to check for sodium in processed foods such as pizza, pasta, sauces, and
soups
,• Limit consumption of saturated and trans fats -✓✓Less than 10% of daily
calories, and should be replaced with unsaturated fats such as canola or olive oil;
foods high in saturated fats include butter, whole milk, meats than are not labeled
as lean, and tropical oils such as coconut and palm oil
• Limit consumption of added sugars -✓✓Less than 10% of daily calories; does
not include naturally occurring sugars such as those consumed as part of milk and
fruits, but sugars and syrups that are added when foods and beverages are
processed or prepared
• Healthy choices at home -✓✓Small changes, such as adding more veggies,
planning meals and cooking at home, and incorporating physical activity into time
with friends and family
• Healthy choices at school -✓✓Improve selection of healthy food choices,
provide nutrition education programs and school gardens, increase school-based
physical activity, and encourage guardians to promote healthy changes at home
• Healthy choices at workplaces -✓✓Encourage walking or activity breaks, offer
healthy food options, and provide health and wellness programs and nutrition
counseling
• Healthy choices in communities -✓✓Increase access to affordable, healthy food
choices through community gardens, farmers' markets, shelters, and food banks,
and create walkable communities by maintaining safe public spaces
• Healthy choices in food retail outlets -✓✓Inform consumers about making
healthy changes and provide healthy food choices
, • SuperTracker -✓✓Help you determine what and how much to eat to stay within
your recommended daily calorie needs, let you know if you've met your nutritional
goals each day, or if your intake has exceeded the recommended levels for foods
you should be limiting, such as empty calories, saturated fats, and sodium
• 8 Healthy Eating Goals -✓✓1. Make half your plate fruits and vegetables
2. Make half the grains you eat whole grains
3. Switch to fat-free or low-fat (1%) milk
4. Choose a variety of lean protein foods
5. Compare sodium in foods
6. Drink water instead of sugary drinks
7. Eat some seafood
8. Cut back on solid fats
• Eating healthy reduce risks for -✓✓Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension
(high blood pressure), some types of cancer, osteoporosis (bone loss)
• Eating healthy means -✓✓Getting enough vitamins, minterals, and other
nutrients while limiting unhealthy foods and drinks
• Nutrition Label -✓✓Check for foods lower in sodium and saturated fat (5% or
less), and higher in fiber, calcium, potassium, and vitamin D (20% or more)
• Affordable Care Act -✓✓Health care reform act passed in 2010 through which
health plans must cover diet counseling for people at a higher risk for chronic
diseases like type 2 diabetes and hypertension
Answers | 2026 Ultimate Final Review |
Grade A+
• Healthy Eating Patterns -✓✓Refers to the combination of all foods and
beverages a person consumes regularly over time; can be adapted to an individual's
budget, taste preferences, traditions, and cultures, and when paired with regular
physical activity, can help people reach and maintain good health while reducing
risks of chronic disease
• Recommendations -✓✓Unchanged from previous editions, and encourage
Americans to consume healthy foods like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, fat-free
and low-fat dairy products, lean meats, seafood, protein goods, and oils; also
suggest limiting sodium, saturated and trans fats, and added sugars
• Five Overarching Guidelines -✓✓1. Follow a healthy eating pattern across the
lifespan
2. Focus on variety, nutrient-dense foods, and amount
3. Limit calories from added sugars and saturated fats, and reduce sodium intake
4. Shift to healthier food and beverage choices
5. Support healthy eating patterns for all
• How many Americans are overweight or obese? -✓✓2/3, often as a result of
unhealthy diets and a sedentary lifestyle
• Limit consumption of salt -✓✓Ages 14 and over should limit to less than 2,300
mg per day and ages 14 and younger should consume even less; use Nutrition
Facts label to check for sodium in processed foods such as pizza, pasta, sauces, and
soups
,• Limit consumption of saturated and trans fats -✓✓Less than 10% of daily
calories, and should be replaced with unsaturated fats such as canola or olive oil;
foods high in saturated fats include butter, whole milk, meats than are not labeled
as lean, and tropical oils such as coconut and palm oil
• Limit consumption of added sugars -✓✓Less than 10% of daily calories; does
not include naturally occurring sugars such as those consumed as part of milk and
fruits, but sugars and syrups that are added when foods and beverages are
processed or prepared
• Healthy choices at home -✓✓Small changes, such as adding more veggies,
planning meals and cooking at home, and incorporating physical activity into time
with friends and family
• Healthy choices at school -✓✓Improve selection of healthy food choices,
provide nutrition education programs and school gardens, increase school-based
physical activity, and encourage guardians to promote healthy changes at home
• Healthy choices at workplaces -✓✓Encourage walking or activity breaks, offer
healthy food options, and provide health and wellness programs and nutrition
counseling
• Healthy choices in communities -✓✓Increase access to affordable, healthy food
choices through community gardens, farmers' markets, shelters, and food banks,
and create walkable communities by maintaining safe public spaces
• Healthy choices in food retail outlets -✓✓Inform consumers about making
healthy changes and provide healthy food choices
, • SuperTracker -✓✓Help you determine what and how much to eat to stay within
your recommended daily calorie needs, let you know if you've met your nutritional
goals each day, or if your intake has exceeded the recommended levels for foods
you should be limiting, such as empty calories, saturated fats, and sodium
• 8 Healthy Eating Goals -✓✓1. Make half your plate fruits and vegetables
2. Make half the grains you eat whole grains
3. Switch to fat-free or low-fat (1%) milk
4. Choose a variety of lean protein foods
5. Compare sodium in foods
6. Drink water instead of sugary drinks
7. Eat some seafood
8. Cut back on solid fats
• Eating healthy reduce risks for -✓✓Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension
(high blood pressure), some types of cancer, osteoporosis (bone loss)
• Eating healthy means -✓✓Getting enough vitamins, minterals, and other
nutrients while limiting unhealthy foods and drinks
• Nutrition Label -✓✓Check for foods lower in sodium and saturated fat (5% or
less), and higher in fiber, calcium, potassium, and vitamin D (20% or more)
• Affordable Care Act -✓✓Health care reform act passed in 2010 through which
health plans must cover diet counseling for people at a higher risk for chronic
diseases like type 2 diabetes and hypertension
