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Lifelong Nutrition

Lifelong Nutrition. Nutrition and the Life Cycle . Life cycle: from before birth through adulthood – affects your growth, energy, and health. Dietary guidelines and Food Guide Pyramid offer the best advice for healthful eating all throughout life. . Eating for a Healthy Pregnancy.

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Lifelong Nutrition

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  1. Lifelong Nutrition

  2. Nutrition and the Life Cycle • Life cycle: from before birth through adulthood – affects your growth, energy, and health. • Dietary guidelines and Food Guide Pyramid offer the best advice for healthful eating all throughout life.

  3. Eating for a Healthy Pregnancy • Prenatal period: conception and birth, a single cell develops into a baby • Fetus, unborn baby, depends on the mother for nourishment • For women who are pregnant or may become pregnant, three nutrients need special attention: folate, B vitamin, and Calcium. • A deficiency, especially in early pregnancy, may result in birth defects in the spine.

  4. Nutrition for Infants • Mother’s Milk: provides a balance of nutrients as well as antibodies that build immunity to infection. It’s easily digested, pre-warmed, germ-free, and economical. The mother needs to follow the Food Guide Pyramid to ensure milk for her baby and enough nutrients for her own health. • Infant formula that is modified nonfat cow’s milk. Most doctors advise using an iron-enriched formula. It doesn’t contain all the nutrients babies need. Until about one year, babies can’t digest it properly. After that, whole milk, which contains fat essential for growth is appropriate, along with solid foods.

  5. Solid Foods for Babies • 4-6 Months: iron-enriched infant cereal and strained fruits and vegetables. • 7-9 Months: Strained meat and poultry, unsweetened juice, plain toast, and teething biscuits. • 10-12 Months: Chopped soft foods, unsweetened dry cereals, plain soft bread, and pasta • After one year: start eat many of the foods other members of their family enjoy. Introduce one food at a time. • Food served warm or at room temperature • Calm surroundings • Time to chew and swallow • Chance to be messy • Someone with them while they are eating

  6. Healthful Eating for Children • The Food Guide Pyramid helps in planning meals and snacks for kids ages two and up! • Children need the same food variety that adults and teens do. They just need a different amount. • They need a regular meal schedule (feeling tired and cranky from hunger affects their appetites). • They need snacks to meet their nutritional needs and their small appetites • Avoid small hard foods like nuts, popcorn, pretzels, raw carrot pieces, raisins, seeds, candy, cough drops and chips. • Set a good example, and don’t use food as a reward or punishment!

  7. Nutrition for Your Teen Years • You grow faster during your teen years than at any time since infancy. You are probably very active, too! • Go easy on high-fat foods, and choose plenty of nutrient-dense foods that are high in complex carbs for more food energy and for their nutrients. • Good nutrition and active living when you’re young can contribute to good health as an adult

  8. Food for a Teen Lifestyle • If you have a raging after-school appetite- tuck portable snacks (fruit, crackers and cheese, raisins, oatmeal cookies) in your school or lunch bag • If your after-school schedule interferes with family meals- work out a plan with your family. Ask someone to set aside a plate of food for you to eat later. Join the family whenever you can. • If you’re still hungry after eating fast- slow down! Remember, it takes time to feel full. • If you don’t have time for breakfast or lunch- make time! You’ll feel better and do better at school and after school activities. • If you hang out with friends at a fast food place- be a role model. Order juice or milk to drink. Try a salad.

  9. Smart Eating During Adulthood Because the body is no longer growing, adults’ energy needs can be lower. Also, as the years go by, the body uses energy for basal metabolism at a slower rate. Choosing mostly low-fat and lean foods from the Pyramid is the best way for less active adults to keep a healthy weight.

  10. Food for a Changing Life • People in the 60 and up age group have different food needs too. • Good nutrition and active living earlier in life are part of the reason. Many older people can’t be as active anymore. • Health problems limit food variety or require a special diet • Life style changes also affect food choices. Living alone may lose interest in preparing food. A fix income is a challenge as food costs go up.

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