1. The Importance of Nutrition (1:38)
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2. Learning to make healthful food choices will keep you healthy throughout your life.

3. nutrition
nutrients
calorie
hunger
appetite

4. Why Nutrition Matters
The food you eat affects your health and quality of life.
Healthful foods provide fuel for physical activities, help you stay mentally alert, and keep you looking and feeling your best.

5. To make healthful food choices, you must first learn about nutrition.
Why Nutrition Matters
To make healthful food choices, you must first learn about nutrition.
Nutrition
The process by which your body takes in and uses food

6. Your body relies on food to provide it with nutrients.
Why Nutrition Matters
Your body relies on food to provide it with nutrients.
Nutrients
Substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy

7. The energy your body receives from food is measured in calories.
Why Nutrition Matters
The energy your body receives from food is measured in calories.
Calorie
A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food

8. Why Nutrition Matters
Eating a variety of healthful foods can help you avoid unhealthful weight gain and diseases such as type 2 diabetes.

9. Cardiovascular disease
Why Nutrition Matters
Cardiovascular disease
Eating a variety of healthful foods can lower your risk of developing other conditions, including:
Certain cancers
Stroke
Osteoporosis

10. What Influences Your Food Choices?
A variety of factors influence food choices.
When you make food choices, you need to understand what influences you.

11. One reason people eat is hunger.
Hunger and Appetite
One reason people eat is hunger.
Hunger
The natural physical drive to eat, prompted by the body’s need for food

12. A second reason people eat is appetite.
Hunger and Appetite
A second reason people eat is appetite.
Appetite
The psychological desire for food

13. Food and Emotions
Sometimes people eat in response to an emotional need, like when they feel stressed, frustrated, lonely, or sad.
In other cases, people may snack out of boredom or use food as a reward.

14. Food and Emotions
Some people engage in “mindless eating,” which is snacking continuously while absorbed in another activity.

15. Food and Emotions
Recognizing how emotions affect your eating can help you break such patterns and reconnect your eating with real hunger.

16. Food and Your Environment
Family and culture
Friends
Environmental Influences
Time and money
Advertising

17. Food and Your Environment
Seeing what your friends and peers eat can influence your own food choices.

18. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Name three health problems that good nutrition can help you avoid.
Any three: unhealthful weight gain, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, certain cancers, osteoporosis

19. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What is the difference between hunger and appetite?
Hunger is the physical drive to eat when the body needs food. Appetite is the psychological desire for food, not based on physical need.

20. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Identify two emotions that influence eating when someone isn’t hungry.
Any two emotions, such as those mentioned in the text (e.g., stress, loneliness, boredom)