1. Nutrients

2. Nutrients Your Body Needs
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Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Building Vocabulary
The process of taking in food and using it for energy, growth, and good health
Nutrition
Nutrients
Substances in foods that your body needs to grow, have energy, and stay healthy
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3. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Understanding Nutrients
Helps the body repair damaged cells
Helps the body build new tissue
Helps the body produce energy
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4. Six Nutrients
How many can you think of? List them.

5. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Proteins
Proteins help your body heal. They are made of chemical building blocks called amino acids. Foods such as meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, and soybeans provide all the amino acids your body needs.
A person who follows a vegetarian diet may need to combine certain plant foods, such as beans and rice to gain all the needed amino acids.
New Vocabulary
proteins The nutrient group used to build and repair cells
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6. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are your body’s main source of energy. About 45 to 65 percent of your daily energy needs come from carbohydrates.
New Vocabulary
carbohydrates The starches and sugars found in foods
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7. Two Types of Carbohydrates
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Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Carbohydrates
Two Types of Carbohydrates
Simple carbohydrates are sugars.
Complex carbohydrates are starches.
Fruit
Potatoes
Milk
Seeds
Honey
Whole-grain cereals
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8. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Carbohydrates
Fiber carries wastes out of your body. Eating high-fiber foods can lower your risk of heart disease and some types of cancer.
New Vocabulary
fiber A complex carbohydrate that the body cannot break down or use for energy
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9. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Fats: Nutrients that promote normal growth, give you energy, and keep your skin healthy.
New Vocabulary
Fats: Your body uses fats to build and maintain your cell membranes. Fats also carry certain vitamins in your bloodstream.
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10. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Fats
Fats
Unsaturated Fats
Saturated Fats
Plant foods such as olive oil, nuts, and avocados
Butter, cheese, fatty meats
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11. Trans Fatty acid: (Trans Fat)
Trans fat is formed through an industrial process that adds hydrogen to vegetable oil, which causes the oil to become solid at room temp.
Some trans fat occurs naturally in foods, most occurs through processing.
It is known to increase risk of heart disease.
Why is it added to food?

12. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Vitamins and Minerals
Vitamins and minerals are essential to your body’s health.
New Vocabulary
vitamins Substances that help your body fight infections and use other nutrients, among other jobs
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New Vocabulary
minerals Elements that help form healthy bones and teeth, and regulate certain body processes
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13. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Water
Water
Helps digest and absorb food.
Regulates body temperature and blood circulation.
Carries nutrients and oxygen to cells.
Removes toxins and other wastes.
Cushions joints.
Protects tissues and organs from shock and damage.
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14. Review:
Nutrition – process of taking in food and using it for energy, growth and good health.
Name the six essential Nutrients.

15. What are 3-4 sources of carbohydrates?
Carbohydrates: Sugars and Starches
Simple Carbs: sugars
Complex Carbs: starches, fiber
What are 3-4 sources of carbohydrates?
Proteins: building blocks for growth
What are 3-4 sources of protein?

16. Fat: source of energy needed in small amounts
Why do we only need a limited amount of fat in our diet?
Why must we include some fat in our diet?
Water: most important nutrient
What are some good sources of water?

17. What are some good sources of vitamins and minerals?
Vitamins: regulate body functions
Minerals: help your body work properly
What are some good sources of vitamins and minerals?

18. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Building Vocabulary
A complex carbohydrate that the body cannot break down or use for energy
fiber
Nutrients that promote normal growth, give you energy, and keep your skin healthy
fats
saturated fats
Fats that are usually solid at room temperature
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19. Nutrients Your Body Needs
LESSON 1
Nutrients Your Body Needs
BIG IDEA
Each nutrient plays a specific role in keeping your body healthy.
Building Vocabulary
unsaturated fats
Fats that are usually liquid at room temperature
vitamins
Compounds that help to regulate body processes
Substances the body uses to form healthy bones and teeth, keep blood healthy, and keep the heart and other organs working properly
minerals
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20. How might your knowledge of nutrients influence your snack food choices?