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Nutrition for Health. Agenda: Warmup = Weight Management and Eating Behaviors Reading Passage Why Nutrition Matters? Activity: Edpuzzle Video 6 Nutrients Activity: Creating My Plate Nutrition Labels. Essential Question. How can the types of foods consumed affect your overall health?.
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Nutrition for Health Agenda: Warmup = Weight Management and Eating Behaviors Reading Passage Why Nutrition Matters? Activity: Edpuzzle Video 6 Nutrients Activity: Creating My Plate Nutrition Labels
Essential Question • How can the types of foods consumed affect your overall health?
Why Nutrition Matters? • To make healthful food choices, you must first learn about nutrition, the process by which your body takes in and uses food. • Your body relies on food to provide it with nutrients, substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy. • The energy body receives from food is measure in calories. A calorie is a unit of heat used to measure the body uses and the energy it receives from food.
What Influences Your Food Choices? • People eat for two reasons: hunger and appetite. • Hunger is the natural physical drive to eat, prompted by the body’s need for food. • When you’re hungry, you may feel tired or lightheaded. Once you satisfy your hunger, you may feel better. • Appetite is the psychological desire for food. Think of how the smell of fresh-bake cookies tempts you, even if your full.
Food and Your Environment What in your environment influences the food you eat? • Family and culture. If your family eats most meals at home, this will influence what you eat. • Friends. If your friends always go to McDonalds after school, you’ll probably eat McDonalds too. • Time and money. People with busy schedules may chose foods that are quick and easy to prepare, such as convenience foods and microwavable meals. • Advertising. Advertisers try to influence your decision about food.
Nutrition: 101 • https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/5865676a4282b83e38a5c64c/watch
Brain Break • 3 minutes
Nutrients • Everything you eat contains nutrients. Nutrients perform specific roles in maintaining your body functions. Your body uses nutrients in many ways: • As an energy source. • To heal, build, and repair tissue • To sustain growth • To help transport oxygen to cells • To regulate body functions
Carbohydrates • Carbohydrates: Starches and sugars present in foods • Most nutritionists recommend 55-60% of daily caloric intake come from carbohydrates • Examples • Sugars-fruits and milk • Starches- whole grains, seeds, nuts, rooted vegetables (potatoes) • Body converts all carbohydrates to glucose (simple sugar), which is the body’s main source of energy
Proteins • Proteins: nutrients that help build and maintain body cells and tissues • Made up of long chains of substances called amino acids • Examples: • Animal Products- fish, meat, poultry, eggs, milk, cheese, yogurt • Other sources: beans, peas, nuts • Used to make enzymes (control rate of chemical reactions), hormones (regulate activities of different cells), and antibodies (destroys disease-causing organisms). • Also used for energy
Fats • Some fat in the diet is necessary • Fats are a type of LIPID: fatty substance that does not dissolve in water • Provides more than double the energy of carbohydrates and proteins • Saturated vs. Unsaturated fats • Saturated- usually solid at room temperature; increased risk of heart disease (butter) • Unsaturated- usually liquid at room temperature; reduced risk of heart disease (olive oil) • Transport vitamins A, D, E, and K in your blood • Most nutritionists recommend eating only moderate amounts
Other Nutrients • Vitamins • Compounds that help regulate many vital body processes, including the digestion, absorption, and metabolism of other nutrients • Water-Soluble vitamins- dissolve in water • Fat-Soluble vitamins- dissolve in fat • Minerals • Substances that the body cannot manufacture but that are needed for forming healthy bones and teeth and for regulating many vital body processes • Water • Vital to every body function • Carries nutrients to cells and waste away from cells • Lubricates joints and mucous membranes • Allows you to swallow and digest foods, maintains normal body temperature (through perspiration)
My Plate Activity • Create My plate • Label each section with the correct title • Draw and label at least 4 foods that you eat normally that fit into each category • Draw and label at least 2 physical activities you enjoy on the back sheet.
Brain Break • 3 minutes
Activity: Nutrition Label • Each group may have up to 5 members. • Each group will be given all five products and their nutrition labels. • Each Group will work together to match the correct information to the Nutrition Label.
Chapter Review Exit Slip • Answer Essential Question – How can the types of foods consumed affect your overall health? • Complete the Chapter Review Exit Slip and hand in it when completed. • If not completed, then finish for homework.