Unit 1 nutrition and health
Assessment
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Please note that this Assessment document has 9 pages and is made up of 4 Parts.
Part 1: Understand how diet is linked to health
1. Define what is meant by the term ‘healthy diet’.
A healthy diet is something that covers all of your body’s needs, and ensures that your body gets all the nutrients that it requires to stay healthy in day to day life. The things that you require will vary depending on a number of different factors including age, gender and activity levels. A healthy diet will consist of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals in the right proportion as needed by the body. It also involved drinking a good amount of water.
2. Describe why the healthy diets of adults and children may be different. Provide at least three examples of these differences.
A healthy diet for adults provides everything the body needs to stay fit and healthy. Diets for children should provide everything they need to stay fit and healthy and also to grow properly. Children require fewer calories than adults.
Lower fat diets are often recommended for older children and adults. Under fives need diets with relatively higher amounts of fat.
Older children often have higher nutrient requirements than adults in order for them to grow properly. 14-18 boys need more B vitamins, calcium phosphorus and iron than adult men. 14-18 year old girls need more calcium, phosphorus and magnesium as they change in term so of getting their
You should use this file to complete your Assessment.
How to complete and send your Assessment:
Save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk
Work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly
When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference
Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number.
Name:
Please note that this Assessment document has 9 pages and is made up of 4 Parts.
Part 1: Understand how diet is linked to health
1. Define what is meant by the term ‘healthy diet’.
A healthy diet is something that covers all of your body’s needs, and ensures that your body gets all the nutrients that it requires to stay healthy in day to day life. The things that you require will vary depending on a number of different factors including age, gender and activity levels. A healthy diet will consist of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals in the right proportion as needed by the body. It also involved drinking a good amount of water.
2. Describe why the healthy diets of adults and children may be different. Provide at least three examples of these differences.
A healthy diet for adults provides everything the body needs to stay fit and healthy. Diets for children should provide everything they need to stay fit and healthy and also to grow properly. Children require fewer calories than adults.
Lower fat diets are often recommended for older children and adults. Under fives need diets with relatively higher amounts of fat.
Older children often have higher nutrient requirements than adults in order for them to grow properly. 14-18 boys need more B vitamins, calcium phosphorus and iron than adult men. 14-18 year old girls need more calcium, phosphorus and magnesium as they change in term so of getting their