Nutrition: The Nutrients

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Nutrition The Nutrients
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Section 1

• What Do You Think?
• To be nourished is eating the right amount of
  foods with enough of the right nutrients.
• All fats are the same, as far as the body is
  concerned.
• Most people can easily get enough calcium,
  because it is found in so many foods.

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Section 1 Benefits of Nutrition

• What is the Best Food for ME?
• What are nutrients?
• Nutrients are substances in the food that the
  body requires for proper growth, maintenance, and
  functioning
• The best food supports normal growth and
  maintains strong muscles, sound bones, healthy
  skin, and enough blood to cleanse and nourish all
  parts of your body

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• The best food also provides enough energy(
  calories) to fuel your growth and activities.
• Too much food energy( calories) can lead to
  excess body fat
• Calories in Calories out

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• Your food choices along with other lifestyle
  choices, can either increase or decrease your
  chances of developing lifestyle diseases
• What are nutrient deficiencies?
• Too little of one or more nutrients in the diet,
  one form of malnutrition
• What is malnutrition?
• It is the result of serious undernutrition

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Section1 Benefits of Nutrition

• Undernutrition vs. Overnutrition
• Throughout the U.S. the abundance of food has
  caused a serious health problem, obesity.
• Many people have diets high in salt, harmful
  fats, cholesterol, and added sugars which can be
  harmful to ones health
• The key to good nutrition is to eat foods that
  provide enough, but not too much, energy (
  Calories) and nutrients

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• MyPlate Plan
• http//www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/download
  s/TenTips/DGTipsheet1ChooseMyPlate.pdf
• Empty calories calories from solid fats and/or
  added sugars. Solid fats and added sugars add
  calories to the food but few or no nutrients. the
  calories from solid fats and added sugars in a
  food are often called empty calories.

Section 2 How to Choose Nutritious Foods
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• In class assignment
• P. 171 questions 1-6 in text books