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Understanding Nutritional Needs for Weight Management and Healthy Living

This lesson focuses on the importance of regular exercise and maintaining a healthy weight to reduce the risk of conditions like arthritis, heart disease, and high blood pressure. It introduces the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a tool for assessing healthy weight in adults and children. Students will explore the significance of balanced nutrition, the reasons behind failed crash diets, and undertake an analysis assignment using a calorie counter tool to evaluate their dietary intake over a week, enhancing their understanding of weight management.

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Understanding Nutritional Needs for Weight Management and Healthy Living

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  1. What particular nutritional needs to each of these groups have?

  2. Lesson 3: Weight Problems Objective: - Regular exercise helps to maintain a healthy weight and reduces the chance of arthritis, high blood pressure and heart disease

  3. Healthy weight, moderately obese, clinically obese BMI: Body mass index This is one way that we can assess a healthy weight. This chart doesn’t always correctly assess high level athletes or person with a highly developed musculature. There is a BMI for adults and one for children and teens. http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/

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  5. A healthy diet • What must you do to maintain a healthy weight? • Why is maintaining a healthy weight important? • Why don’t crash diets work?

  6. Analysis assignment, Cr E • Go to calorie counter and set up an account http://caloriecount.about.com/ You will fill it in for a week (7 days). At the end of the week you will be able to print off a summary of your week and a graph. Using your knowledge of nutrients, analyse your diet.

  7. Summary: 1. Why do people that are very thin and some people who are very obese suffer from deficiency diseases? 2. If you take in more ________than you use, the excess is stored as ________if you eat too much over a period of time, you will eventually become_______. To lose weight you need to eat______ and exercise_________.

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