Week #5

 After reading this chapter you will be able to:  1. explain why a nutritious diet is important  2. describe a healthy person  3. explain how diet and health are related  4. name the needs satisfied by eating  5. list factors that affect food choices  6. explain why you eat the foods you do

 Wellness:  Being the highest level of health  Nutrients:  The materials found in foods that are needed to build and repair body tissues and provide energy  Diet  All the foods a person eats  Nutritious diet:  A diet that includes energy and all the nutrients and how the body uses them.

 Food Science  The study of how foods change chemically through natural processes or when they are prepared or stored.  Hunger  The physical need for food  Appetite  The desire to eat certain foods and reject others  Food marketing  Any type of action that a company takes to get you to buy their food.

 Food affects everything about you  Influences how you look, feel and act  Also determines how well you grow  Affects your ability to work and play  You physical health and mental alertness partly depend on the foods you eat.  Also affects you level of wellness.  Level of wellness depends on 6 factors

 1. physical wellness: means not being sick, eating a healthy diet, being physically fit and taking steps to avoid injuries.  2. Social wellness: means building healthy relationships with family and friends and working to improve the world.  3. Emotional wellness: means feeling good about yourself, keeping friendships, and having a positive outlook in both good and bad times.

 4. Intellectual wellness: means keeping your mind active and leaning knowledge and skills.  5. Philosophical wellness: means knowing what’s important to you and finding meaning and purpose in your life.  6. Career wellness: means having a good attitude about school and work and feeling good about what you achieve.

 Wellness is an ongoing process.  Each day you make choices that affect your wellness.  Your goal is to make good choices that strengthen each wellness factor.  Sometimes one factor may be lower than another.  If one factor drops and you are finding it hard to balance it out or build it up again, talk to an adult to help you find ways to build it up again.  The key to wellness is to work hard every day to improve each wellness factor.

 Food affects your wellness in may ways because it is your source of energy and nutrients.  Each day your, your body uses nutrients to build a little bit of muscle, skin, and every other body part.  Nutrients help you grow and replace old, worn out cells.  The foods you eat today, will be part of you tomorrow.  Nutrients also provide the energy you need to work and play.

 The best foods to eat are the ones that add up to a nutritious diet.  It helps you grow normally.  Helps build strong muscles, solid bones and healthy skin.  Provides enough energy and nutrients to richly nourish all parts of your body.

 Giving good nutrition your best shot is important right now.  Doing this time you are growing a great deal.  If you are not getting all the nutrients you need you might not be as strong and healthy as it could be.  Getting the right amount of calories is important too.  Too few can limit your height and muscle growth.  Too many can cause extra fat to be stored.

 A large amount of extra fat can make a teen go through a growth spurt too early, this may keep them from growing as tall as they could.  Also puts pressure on growing leg joints and foot bones and may damage them.  Can also harm the heart and other organs  May limit the body’s ability to deliver nutrients to cells.

 Helps firm up growing muscles and build strong bones.  Helps control body fat levels and lowers the risk of getting certain diseases.

 Good nutrition and physical activity are keys to good health.  This improves you chances of success in school  Healthy people tend to:  Have more fun  Feel good about themselves  Have energy  Look their best.

 Shiny hair  Clear, smooth skin  Bright, clear eyes  White teeth  Firm muscles  Strong bones  Energy to work and play hard  Infection resistance  Quick recovery from illness  Ability to relax  Happy, contented outlook

 Good nutrition is important for your future  Even if you feel good now, things may be happening inside you that your won’t notice for years.  Careful food choices today may help you avoid getting fragile bones, heart disease, and certain types of cancer in the future.

 Almost everyone at some time has asked “why did I eat that?”  You most often eat because you are hungry  Perhaps you eat when you get together with friends  May be you eat because you are bored.  People eat to satisfy hunger, social needs, and emotional needs.

 The most obvious reason to eat  Your body is demanding food when your stomach growls, or you feel weak or light headed.  Your body needs a fresh supply of energy and nutrients.

 Eating with others helps satisfy the need to be with others.  You may not feel hungry at all when you eat for social reasons.  Offering food to guest is a common way to make them feel welcome.  When families eat meals together this gives them time to talk and share their thoughts.

 All kinds of emotions can cause people to eat.  People may not feel hungry at all when they eat to satisfy emotional needs  Some eat to celebrate a happy emotion  Some eat to cope with negative emotions  Others use food to help them forget their troubles.

 It is your appetite that guides you to eat certain foods to satisfy hunger, social needs, and emotions,  Your cultural group and family may influence your appetite.  If you are busy you may want foods that are easy to prepare.  People concerned about their health desire foods they think are good for them.  Appetite and food choices depend on factors such as personal likes, culture, and customs.  Other factors may include, lifestyle, environment, food marketing, and knowledge.

 Food likes are very personal  What appeals to one may not to others.  Most people like common foods more than they like exotic foods.  Exotic foods can become common if you eat them more often.  What may be exotic to one may be common to someone else.  Culture and family customs greatly control which foods people regard as common or exotic.

 Culture is the knowledge, beliefs, religion, and traditions shared by a group of people.  This teaches a person which foods are proper to eat and which are not.  Foods one culture group feels are proper to eat may be rejected by another.

 A custom is a practice a group of people do often.  Parents pass food customs on to their children.

 This can affect your lifestyle also.  Lifestyle is the type of life you lead.  It includes the way you spend your time and use your energy.  Can be determined by the amount of money you have.  People who are very busy have little time and energy to buy and prepare foods.  Food choices are partly based on what a person can afford to buy.

 Is the surroundings and all the experiences you have.  Filled with may sights, sounds, flavors, and textures.  Seeing, smelling or just knowing a food is there can affect your food choices.

 This is part of your environment  Can strongly affect your appetite  Advertising is one type of food marketing.  The purpose of food marketing is to tell you about a product so you will buy it.  They make it hard for you to resist their food.  They may:  Show pictures of people having fun eating the food.  Tell you the food is easy to make  Tell you it taste good.  Tell you that it is a healthy choice.

 Food marketing seems almost everywhere.  Advertised on TV  Average teen sees 10,000 ads for food each year.  Another types of marketing your might see is called product placement.  This is when food marketers pay producers to use their food.

 Food is marketed in many other places.  Food company logos on vending machines, cook covers, or posters.  There may be billboards, scoreboards or basketball backboards.  Tee-shirts also advertise candy.  Company websites many offer games, and screensavers to market their product.  There are many more products that you can find a company’s logo. This is all marketing.

 What you know about food can influence your food choices also.  Many people eat a food because they know it is good for them.  They are using their knowledge to choose a healthy diet.  They know that eating well can help them look and feel great.

 List 2 ways a nutritious diet helps your body.

 ______ is the study of nutrients and how you body uses them.

 Teens who do not have all the nutrients they need many not grow well.

 List 4 traits of healthy people

 “Why did I eat those cookies at the mall last night. They smelled good, but I wasn’t even hungry.” sand Hans. Why do you think Hans at the cookies?  A. because of his family  B. because of his culture  C. because of his environment  D. because of his knowledge.

 Appetite is the physical need for food.

 Appetite depends on ______.  A. personal likes  B. lifestyle  C. knowledge  D. all of the above

 Explain how the environment can affect food choices. Gove an example of how the environment has affected your food choices.

 Good nutrition is important to your health now and in the future.  A nutritious diet includes all the energy and nutrients you need in the amounts you need  Food affects the way you look, feel, act and grow.  You eat to satisfy your hunger, social needs, and emotions  Personal likes, culture, custom, lifestyle, environment, food marketing, and knowledge affect your food choices.

 List 2 ways a nutritious diet helps your body.  Grow normally  Build strong muscles  Solid bones  Healthy skin  Nourish all parts of your body.

 ______ is the study of nutrients and how you body uses them.  Nutrition

 Teens who do not have all the nutrients they need many not grow well.  True

 List 4 traits of healthy people.  Shiny hair  Clear, smooth skin  Bright, clear eyes  White teeth  Firm muscles  Strong bones  Energy to work and play hard  Infection resistance  Quick recovery from illness  Ability to relax  Happy, contented outlook

 “Why did I eat those cookies at the mall last night. They smelled good, but I wasn’t even hungry.” sand Hans. Why do you think Hans at the cookies?  A. because of his family  B. because of his culture  C. because of his environment  D. because of his knowledge.  C. because of his environment

 Appetite is the physical need for food.  False

 Appetite depends on ______.  A. personal likes  B. lifestyle  C. knowledge  D. all of the above

 Explain how the environment can affect food choices. Gove an example of how the environment has affected your food choices.  Seeing, smelling, knowing a food is available, or hearing an advertisement can cause you to want to eat.