Good Eating Habits (1973)

[Applause] n [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] eating habits for a tiger are different from eating habits for a boy and other animals eating habits for a chimpanzee are different from those for a girl good eating habits for people at the zoo are different from those for people at a restaurant good eating habits for people in our country may be different from eating habits for people in another country good eating habits depend on the time the place and the people they're different in various parts of the world they're different in various parts of our country too [Music] good eating habits are special things we do at the table to make Meal Time more [Music] pleasant in our part of the world there are certain eating habits that most people [Music] follow we all wash our hands before a meal why we get dirty during the day if dirt gets in our mouths while we're eating it can make us sick so we wash off the germs and dirt before we begin to [Music] eat another good eating habit is not to say bad things about the food it can make a meal unpleasant for everyone we may not like all the food on our plate but we ought to try them all why for good health our bodies need different kinds of food to keep us healthy and [Music] strong eating many kinds of food helps us feel better try not to waste food taking big bites won't make us feel better food that's not cut small enough or chewed long enough has to be guled down and that's hard on the stomach and may make us sick cutting food small enough and chewing it long enough make eating easier and more pleasant it's not much fun to look at a mouthful of food is it that's one good reason to get in the habit of chewing with our mouths closed after chewing the food well it's a good idea to swallow it completely before taking a [Music] drink it's easier to digest and it may prevent choking it doesn't look very good to see food scraps dropped all over the place or picked up off the floor when we keep our food on the plate it can't get all over our clothes and the table and floor [Music] right talking about Pleasant eating it's no fun to hear arguing and shouting when we're trying to eat that's why we make a habit of talking pleas ly at the table without shouting or interrupting even though it's hard sometimes there may be times when it's fun to get excited and play around but not at the table sometimes we get careless don't we things get messed up or spilled a good way to avoid that is to move food where it won't be knocked over but if things are spilled we have something to clean up with what is it do you [Music] remember a napkin we keep it on our laps in case food spills or Falls and we use it to wipe our mouths and hands another good idea is not to fill up on snacks or sweets between me meals otherwise we won't be hungry at meal times those are some good eating habits there are lots of [Music] others watching an adult with good manners is one way to learn good eating habits your family may have special ways of eating certain foods and that's all right family Customs differ remember good eating habits depend on the place the food and the people at home we almost always eat with knives forks and spoons and we laugh and talk together at a restaurant we speak more quietly so we won't disturb other people we always have a knife Fork and Spoon at a picnic it's all right to eat some foods without a knife and fork and we can get up and move around while we eat at school it's not a good idea to get up and run around during lunch we eat pretty much like we do at home at home though there are sometimes when we have other eating habits aren't there your family may have a meal watching TV and what about when we have a party at home good eating habits are a little different than too some noise and playing around are fine good EA habits depend upon where we are eating [Music] we learn to wheat the way people here do not the way animals do for people in other parts of the world and for some people here eating habits may be different from ours but We Live Here and Now with our food and our ways of eating it we learn good eating habits when we're young and we use them all our lives [Music]