United States’ VS Canada’s Food Guide United States Canada Comparisons The MyPlate food guide features five food groups in total‚ yet Canada’s food guide only has four due to the fact that it groups Vegetables and Fruits in one category. Different colours are used to represent different categories on MyPlate‚ they are Vegetables‚ Grains‚ Fruits‚ Protein‚ plus a side section of Dairy‚ which is similar as the Canada’s food guide rainbows. Additional Oil and Fats is also recommended
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Task 1a Produce a booklet suitable for patients in a health centre to improve their understanding of nutrition. Start with a page explaining the terms: food‚ diet‚ meals and nutrients. Explain what nutritional measures dietary guidelines could be used to identify a person who was malnourished‚ undernourished‚ and deficient in certain nutrients‚ overweight or obese. Use charts and tables with annotation or brief summaries‚ for you to demonstrate your understanding of the information presented. Simple
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It is essential to maintain a healthy diet to perform daily activities in ones life. The requirements for a healthy diet can be met from a variety of plant-based and animal-based foods. A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrients such as: adequate fluids‚ adequate essential amino acids from proteins‚ essential fatty acids‚ vitamins‚ minerals‚ and adequate calories. Where lack of essential nutrients or an improper diet will lead to health risks such as: obesity‚ heart disease‚
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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. 2. Describe why the healthy diets of adults and children may be different. Provide at least three
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Three Nutrition Sources There are so so many places that we believe are the correct ways to find out or buy items of nutrition. Some of them can be correct but some of them aren’t‚ but you cant always blame yourself because it can be tricky when it comes to choosing these types of things. But to me‚ there are three places that I am confident that will not bring me down on nutrition. First‚ is the gym. I believe that most people will agree with me because its such an obvious place that
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Food AND Nutrition Scurvy (15) http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155758.php Who gets scurvy? Though scurvy is a very rare disease‚ it still occurs in some patients - usually elderly people‚ alcoholics‚ or those that live on a diet devoid of fresh fruits and vegetables. Similarly‚ infants or children who are on special or poor diets for any number of economic or social reasons may be prone to scurvy. 16) http://www.articlesbase.com/anti-aging-articles/americans-unhealthy-lifestyle-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-407805
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Definitions 1. Components of defining one’s health Intellectual stimulation Emotional Medical/Physiological Physical/Exercise Spiritual Social Mental/Psychological Nutrition/Dietary 2. Balance: optimize & balance your situation Optimization: optimize the behaviors you do in your life Perfection: can’t strive for it because it can make you emotionally tired 3. Having a cookie once a while (moderation) will not destroy your health‚ having a cookie-lifestyle
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University of Phoenix Material Health and Nutrition Worksheet Use Ch. 1‚ 2‚ & 3 of Visualizing Nutrition‚ supplemental course materials‚ the University Library‚ the Internet‚ or other resources to answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be 75 to 100 words. 1. What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? For me nutrition would be eating the right types of food in order to maintain your body healthy. Nutrition is very essential to our daily lives
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Banana - A banana is an edible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants of the genus Musa. Nutrition Facts Bananas Amount Per 1 medium (7" to 7-7/8" long) (118 g) Calories 105 Total fat 0.4 g 0% Saturated fat 0.1 g 0% Polyunsaturated fat 0.1 g Monounsaturated fat 0 g Cholesterol 0 mg 0% Sodium 1 mg 0% Potassium 422 mg 12% Total Carbohydrate 27 g 9% Dietary fiber 3.1 g 12% Sugar 14 g Protein 1.3 g 2% Vitamin A 1% Vitamin C 17%
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NUTRITION QUESTIONS for June 2013 Archt. Jet Cortez UAP‚ RMP‚ RN‚ MAN(c) 1. ______ are nutrients a person must obtain from food because the body cannot make them for itself in sufficient quantities to meet physiological needs. When asked by a student nurse about the importance of Alcoholic Beverages to nutrition the nurse appropriately responds by saying that “Alcohol is not a nutrient because ” (C‚HE) a. the body derives no energy from it. b. it is organic. c. it is converted to body
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