Unit One: Exploring the Principles of Healthy Eating
Unit one: Exploring the principles of healthy eating
Assessment
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1. Define what is meant by the term ‘healthy diet’.
A healthy diet is a diet which helps to improve your health. . A healthy diet must consume of appropriate amounts of nutrients and a suitable amount of water. Those nutrients are acquired from all different foods. It helps to lower health risks such as: obesity, health disease, cancer and more. A healthy diet also needs to contain a stable amount of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
2. Describe why the healthy diets of adults and children may be different. Provide at least three examples of these differences.
1) Children need more fat then adults in order to grow and develop properly as they burn fat quicker than adults 2) Adults drink semi-skimmed milk while children should drink full fat milk (under 2’s) for the development of strong bones and teeth. 3) Adults consume plenty of fibre rich foods whilst children shouldn’t eat too much due to they get full up to quickly and don’t consume enough calories and nutrients
3. Give an outline of at least three lifestyle diseases associated with unhealthy diets.
a) Heart disease
b) Cancer
c) Diabetes
4. Name three sources of energy in food. Then, identify the amount of energy that 1g of each source provides.
Carbohydrates- 1g of carbohydrate = 4 calories
Protein- 1g of protein= 4 calories
Fat- 1g of fat= 9 calories
5. Based on your own diet and
Assessment
You should use this file to complete your Assessment.
• The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk
• Then 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.vision2learnforschools.com and send your completed Assessment to your teacher via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number.
Name:
1. Define what is meant by the term ‘healthy diet’.
A healthy diet is a diet which helps to improve your health. . A healthy diet must consume of appropriate amounts of nutrients and a suitable amount of water. Those nutrients are acquired from all different foods. It helps to lower health risks such as: obesity, health disease, cancer and more. A healthy diet also needs to contain a stable amount of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
2. Describe why the healthy diets of adults and children may be different. Provide at least three examples of these differences.
1) Children need more fat then adults in order to grow and develop properly as they burn fat quicker than adults 2) Adults drink semi-skimmed milk while children should drink full fat milk (under 2’s) for the development of strong bones and teeth. 3) Adults consume plenty of fibre rich foods whilst children shouldn’t eat too much due to they get full up to quickly and don’t consume enough calories and nutrients
3. Give an outline of at least three lifestyle diseases associated with unhealthy diets.
a) Heart disease
b) Cancer
c) Diabetes
4. Name three sources of energy in food. Then, identify the amount of energy that 1g of each source provides.
Carbohydrates- 1g of carbohydrate = 4 calories
Protein- 1g of protein= 4 calories
Fat- 1g of fat= 9 calories
5. Based on your own diet and