Board Game Teaching Healthy Eating Habits

Abstract

A game to help players learn how to make the best choices in regards to nutrition and exercise is disclosed. A game board may be configured with start areas, food choice areas, and exercise areas. Players on food choice areas must answer a food choice question and add tokens to the player's weight container based on the answer. Players on an exercise question must answer an exercise question and add or remove tokens to or from player's weight container based on the answer. Answers to an exercise question can require that a player perform an exercise listed on a selected exercise card and remove tokens from the player's weight container based on successfully performing the exercise in whole or in part. When all the players have made a complete circuit of the game board, each player weighs his or her weight container and determines in which weight category his or her weight container falls.

1 . A method of playing a nutrition and exercise game comprising:
 moving a first playing piece to a first food choice area of a game board;   answering a first food choice question;   adding a first weight token to a first weight container;   moving the first playing piece to a first exercise area of the game board;   answering a first exercise question;   determining an exercise based on a response to the first exercise question; and   removing a second weight token from the first weight container responsive to successfully performing the exercise or a portion thereof.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the first weight token is selected based on an answer to the first food choice question. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the second weight token is selected based on an answer to the first exercise question. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein a weight of the first weight token corresponds to a food choice represented by the first weight token. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising weighing the first weight container to determine a weight category associated with the first weight container. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein answering the first food choice question comprises selecting a food choice question card from a plurality of food choice question cards and answering the first food choice question presented on the selected food choice question card. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein answering the first exercise question comprises selecting an exercise question card from a plurality of exercise question cards and answering the first exercise question presented on the selected exercise question card. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the first playing piece and the first weight container are the same object. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the first weight token is removably affixed to the first weight container. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein determining the exercise based on the response to the first exercise question comprises determining the exercise based on the response and an exercise chart. 
     
     
         11 . A board game comprising:
 a game board comprising:
 a plurality of food choice areas, 
 a plurality of exercise areas, and 
 at least one start area; 
   a plurality of playing pieces;   a plurality of weight containers;   a plurality of weight tokens; and   a scale.   
     
     
         12 . The board game of  claim 11 , wherein each of the plurality of weight containers comprises a column section and a base section, and wherein each of the plurality of weight containers is configured to affix to each of the plurality of weight containers about the column section of each of the plurality of weight containers. 
     
     
         13 . The board game of  claim 11 , wherein the game board is rectangular shaped. 
     
     
         14 . The board game of  claim 11 , wherein a display of the scale comprises sections corresponding to a plurality of weight categories. 
     
     
         15 . The board game of  claim 11 , wherein each of the plurality of playing pieces comprises an element configured to receive a visual indicator of a player. 
     
     
         16 . The board game of  claim 11 , wherein each of the plurality of weight tokens comprises a weight that corresponds to a food item associated with the weight token. 
     
     
         17 . The board game of  claim 11 , further comprising a plurality of food choice question cards associated with the plurality of food choice areas. 
     
     
         18 . The board game of  claim 17 , wherein each of the plurality of food choice question cards comprises at least one multiple choice question. 
     
     
         19 . The board game of  claim 11 , further comprising a plurality of exercise question cards associated with the plurality of exercise areas. 
     
     
         20 . The board game of  claim 19 , wherein each of the plurality of exercise question cards comprises at least one multiple choice question.