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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Nutrition for Teenagers Nutrition for young people is important to the way their bodies are shaped for the rest of their lives. Teenage diets should maintain growth‚ encourage health and be satisfying. In addition during the teenage years a number of mental and physical changes happen to the body. These incorporate a noticeable acceleration in height‚ and extensive gains in bone and muscle. These changes affect nutritional requirements. For good heatlh the following nutrients
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Nazareno‚ Djhaemy T. BSEd EN 2-2D What is nutrition? Nutrition is the intake of food‚ considered in relation to the body’s dietary needs. Good nutrition – an adequate‚ well balanced diet combined with regular physical activity – is a cornerstone of good health. Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity‚ increased susceptibility to disease‚ impaired physical and mental development‚ and reduced productivity. Source: http://www.who.int/topics/nutrition/en/ What is wellness? Wellness is an active
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Diet and Exercise Introduction During PE theory we have been looking at diet and exercise. Our main focus has been of what sorts of foods and drinks we consume‚ especially before and after exercise. We have looked at keeping our bodies hydrated‚ and what liquids we should consume. Lastly Kilojoules is another area we have been learning about‚ and how many we burn during different activities. Diet and nutrition – what foods should we be eating? What you eat plays a big part of health‚ looks
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An Impractical Diet In the article “Diet for a Warm Planet” Julia Whitty proposes a radical concept of the U.S. Cutting its carbon footprint as a whole. She uses first-hand knowledge provided by James Hansen from NASA to back up her supporting evidence and statistics. Whitty’s conceptualizes about putting the US on a diet; in the article‚ for the most part it is well written. She also states that we need to reduce our CO2 emissions from 385 ppm to 350 ppm. Whitty starts out with the perils
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Good Nutrition Means a Good Life What is nutrition? Nutrition is the process of taking in food and using it for energy‚ growth‚ and good health. Having a good nutrition plan is essential for a longer‚ healthier life style. Nutrition consists of taking in vitamins‚ exercising‚ and eating right. A nutrition plan contains vegetables‚ fruits‚ grains‚ and meats. Even though these foods are part of a nutrition plan‚ no one can eat as much as desired. The amount one intakes depends on the weight‚ sex
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A healthy diet is one that helps maintain or improve health. It is important for lowering many chronic health risks‚ such as obesity‚ heart disease‚ diabetes‚ hypertension and cancer.[1] A healthy diet involves consuming appropriate amounts of all essential nutrients and an adequate amount of water. Nutrients can be obtained from many different foods‚ so there are numerous diets that may be considered healthy. A healthy diet needs to have a balance of macronutrients (fats‚ proteins‚ and carbohydrates)
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the wellbeing of children. Preschool children require high quality meals in order to grow and develop. This is to counter obesity and the life threatening diseases that come along with malnutrition and eating disorders. By providing a high quality diet and providing adequate daily exercise‚ preschoolers can balance their recommended calories intake and the energy they burn throughout the day. The nutritional goals that I would put in place for the children in my class are to: understand how food
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Why Adopt a Vegetarian Diet? “Meat and potatoes” is a phrase used in American English that means the centerpiece of a meal. Besides referring to food‚ “meat” signifies the most important part of anything. It has been such a deeply ingrained‚ time-honored tradition for families to build a meal around meat‚ that one can safely say that meat has become the heart of an American meal. Meat gives us protein‚ and therefore‚ our strength. However‚ this widely held belief that meat is necessary for health
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1. PROTEIN is composed of amino acids. It is required to synthesize and repair muscle and other tissues and maintain fluid and acid-base balance in the body. Proteins also function as enzymes‚ hormones‚ and transporters. If necessary‚ the body uses protein to meet energy needs (4 kcals per gram). Excess kcals from protein are stored as body fat. If you consumed 60 grams of protein in a day‚ how many kcals would this convert to? (Choose your answer and delete the rest). (1 point) b)
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