In order to start developing an understanding of nutrition and healthy eating‚ you need to know the basic definitions. Health - The state of a human when it functions optimally without evidence of disease or abnormality “Optimal health for Canadians can only be achieved when greater efforts are made in health promotion and prevention of illness‚ and when nutrition is an integral part of these efforts” (Health Canada) Nutrition - is the study of: • the nutrients in foods; • how nutrients
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injured tissue and promotes a healthy immune system. Both carbohydrates and fats fuel your body‚ while vitamins and minerals function throughout your body in support of your body’s processes. Vitamins A‚ C and E‚ for example‚ act as antioxidants to protect your cells against toxins‚ and B vitamins help you extract energy from the foods you eat. Calcium and phosphorus keep your bones strong‚ while sodium and potassium help to transmit nerve signals. Without a healthy diet‚ you might compromise any
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have done. Children can learn how to sit at the table and behave. Regular meal time it is important of the child’s daily routine and they can learn about healthy food. 2.2. Describe ways to encourage children to eat healthily. Give the children healthy foods. Show children that you eat healthy food‚ they will like to be copying. Eating should be fun and shared with other family members Try not to give them too much snack. Children usually have small appetites so they may need to be given
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Why don’t teenagers eat healthy? They have not stopped dressing‚ playing sports‚ working‚ or traveling‚ so why did they stop eating healthy? Is it because today they have grown up with junk food and that they do not know how to eat healthy? Maybe it is because they are so involved with many other activities that they can’t find the time to eat a decent meal. Whatever the specific reason may be‚ American teenagers have stopped eating healthy and something needs to be done. This paper tells the reasons
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diet is linked to health 1. Define what is meant by the term ‘healthy diet’. A healthy diet is one which provides the body with essential nutrition which it needs in order to function to the best of its ability. The requirements which the body needs will vary depending on several different factors such as age and gender‚ as well as environmental factors such as the level of activity a person partakes in. People who have a healthy diet generally feel good‚ have lots of energy and are less susceptible
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“The Importance of Eating Breakfast” Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to take a few minutes from their busy lives to breakfast in the mornings. Central Idea: As your age increases so does the percentage of skipping breakfast‚ which can lead to many problems ‚big or small‚ throughout your life. I encourage you to take a little bit of time each day to eat breakfast. Introduction Attention Getter: How many of you enjoy putting on a few pounds? I don’t mean gaining
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BREAKFAST EATING HABITS (STATISTICAL RESEARCH PROJECT) Every day millions of people around the globe turn off their alarm clocks and start their day. Some will jump out of bed and hit the door running full tilt because they are already 10 minutes late. Others are up hours before they are required to be anywhere‚ soak in the sunrise and settle into a predefined routine‚ of which breakfast may or may not be a part of. But who eats breakfast? Are there any significant factors that predispose
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Sample Persuasive Speech Outline Topic: Factory Farming Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that factory farms are dangerous and abusive and therefore need to be banned. Primary Audience Outcome: I the want the audience to join or support national organizations that protest against factory farms. Thesis Statement: The U.S. government should ban factory farms and require the meat industry to raise animals in their natural
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Elizabeth Nordstrom Speech Communications: Section 49 Persuasive Speech Outline Why Every College Student Should Exercise INTRODUCTION 1. Hello everyone‚ my name is Liz Nordstrom and today I have come to speak with you all about how important it is to not only be physically active‚ but to take care of your body by also eating healthy. There are many benefits that come from working out for a short period of time each day. A lot of these benefits are physical and mental‚ however there are many that
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Written Task 2: Rational Word Count: 289 The main topic of this written task is how eating disorders have a main role in our daily life but we don’t really notice its presence. The speaker in the speech is myself because I am a teenager girl which is normally where the problem is mostly targeted‚ and it is directed to any high school of any school because I know that almost everybody has heard‚ has a friend or is suffering from this problem‚ and due to our unstable conscious and low self esteems
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