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Nutrition Principles

Nutrition Principles. Influences on food choices: What makes you eat what you eat?. Strand 1: Nutrition. 1.2 Distinguish between unhealthy and healthy ways to manage weight.

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Nutrition Principles

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  1. Nutrition Principles Influences on food choices: What makes you eat what you eat?

  2. Strand 1: Nutrition • 1.2 Distinguish between unhealthy and healthy ways to manage weight. • 1.7 Assess personal barriers to eating healthfully and being physically active, and develop practical solutions to remove these barriers. • 1.9 Predict the health benefits of eating healthfully and being physically active; and the potential health consequences of not doing so.

  3. Hunger: The body’s physical response to the need for food. It is the natural drive that protects you from starvation • It is the feeling you are born with • Symptoms include: • Hunger pains • Weakness, dizziness, & nausea • Loss of concentration

  4. Appetite: is the desire, rather than the need, to eat on the pleasure derived from eating certain foods • What do I want to eat? • Factors that influence your appetite include: • Taste • Texture • Smell • Your physical health • The weather • Your culture or religion

  5. What happens when you decide to eat? • When hunger & appetite work together you generally have a nice balance • Problems arise when you let your appetite dictate what, when, and how much you are going to eat. Relying on appetite to determine your diet also allows people to eat when they are not hungry

  6. What happens when you decide to eat continued? • Problems also arise when people let emotional factors dictate what and how much they eat • Often depressed people eat a certain type of food to make them feel better or they may not eat at all.

  7. What happens when you decide to eat continued? 4. Some people eat at specific times of the day because of schedules. The problem then is they may eat when they are not hungry

  8. Major health problems related to diet or poor nutrition • Short Term Conditions: • Fatigue • Bad Moods • Depression

  9. Major Health Problems Related to Diet or Poor Nutrition • Long Term Conditions: • Obesity • Heart disease • Stroke • Adult-onset diabetes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTgBvJsHcCk&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active 5. High Blood Pressure (Hypertension); also called “the silent killer”

  10. Major Health Problems Related to Diet or Poor Nutrition Long term conditions continued: 6. Cirrhosis of the Liver • Tooth Decay • Cancer (some types more than other) • Birth of low birth weight babies with poor mental & physical development • Dietary deficiency diseases

  11. Environmental Factors: eating behaviors are influenced by them. These are factors we deal with every day • Household structure • Income level • Health beliefs • Nutritional knowledge • Your occupation or your parents

  12. Environmental Factors continued: • Location of residence • Level of education • Physiological make-up • Cultural background 10. Religious beliefs

  13. Your Personality can also influence your food choices: • More adventuresome people may try new things • More low-key, conservative people may stick to the same types of food they have been eating their whole life

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