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Nutrition and Productivity

Nutrition and Productivity. You are What You Eat. Food affects you mood Food affects your energy level Food affects your mental alertness Eventual food may affect the amount of time you have to manage. Food and Mood. Ammino Acids. Neurotransmitters (brain chemicals).

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Nutrition and Productivity

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  1. Nutrition and Productivity

  2. You are What You Eat • Food affects you mood • Food affects your energy level • Food affects your mental alertness • Eventual food may affect the amount of time you have to manage

  3. Food and Mood Ammino Acids Neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) Dopamine Norepinephrine Serotonine Promotes: Muscle activity Aggressiveness Mental Alertness Promotes: Relaxed feeling Sleepiness

  4. Food and Mood Ammino Acids Neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) Dopamine Norepinephrine Serotonine Tyrosine Trytophane Protein - Fish, chicken, lean meat Carbohydrates

  5. Food and Efficiency • The brain needs oxygen to function effectively • Because of their chemical structure, fats need a plentiful supply of oxygen to be digested • Therefore, a meal high in fatwill redirect oxygen from thebrain to the stomach

  6. Lunch

  7. Lunch

  8. Lunch

  9. Lunch

  10. Food and Time Management • Diets high in fats, cholesterol and calories may lead to health problems which impair your ability to perform tasks effectively and efficiently.

  11. Food and Time Management • Heart disease resulting from improper nutrition could reduce the amount of time you have to manage.

  12. Food • Proteins • Carbohydrates • Starches • Dietary Fiber • Sugars • Fats • Saturated • Unsaturated

  13. How do you determine calorie content of a food? • Carbohydrates (grams) X 4 = 40 • Protein (grams) X 4 = 40 • Fats (grams) X 9 = 90 If a food has 10 grams of protein, 10 grams of carbohydrates and 10 grams of fat, how many calories does it have?

  14. How many calories do you need daily? • Sedentary (spend most of the day sitting at a desk) • Multiply your weight by 13 • Moderately active (Walking or standing most of the day or 30 - 60 minutes of aerobic exercise most days) • Multiply your weight by 15

  15. How many calories do you need daily? • Very Active (Very physical weight or athletic levels of fitness activity) • Multiply your weight by 17

  16. How much fat should bein your daily diet? • 1. Pick a Healthy Weight For Yourself • This can be your current weight if you are pleased with it, or, if you'd like to lose weight, the target weight that you are trying to attain.

  17. How much fat? • 2. Some Simple Calculations • Divide your healthy weight by 3. The answer equals the grams of fat that are 20 percent of your total daily calories. • Divide your healthy weight by 2. This answer equals the grams of fat that are 30 percent of your total daily calories.

  18. How much fat? • 3. You should try to keep your daily fat intake between these two numbers for a healthy diet. The closer you can get to the lower number the better.

  19. How much fat? • Note: The above calculations assume you are moderately active on most days. But if you spend most of your days sitting or behind a desk you should subtract 7 from the lower number and subtract 10 from the top number.

  20. Cholesterol

  21. Cholesterol

  22. Cholesterol

  23. Cholesterol

  24. Reading theLabel

  25. How many calories???? http://ecol.webpoint.com/fitness/calcount.htm http://homearts.com/helpers/calculators/caldocf1.htm http://www.healthyideas.com/weight/wlwb http://cyberdiet.com/ni/htdocs/

  26. Counting Calories

  27. Counting Calories

  28. Counting Calories

  29. Counting Calories

  30. Are “Fast Foods?” Healthy? http://www.bgsm.edu/nutrition/in.html

  31. Body Mass Index http://homearts.com/helpers/calculators/bmicalc.htm http://www.cyberdiet.com/bmi/bmi.thml

  32. Body Mass Index

  33. Body Mass Index

  34. Body Mass Index

  35. Diet

  36. Diet

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