1. Nutrition and Your Health
Chapter 5
Mr. Martin

2. Nutrition During the Teen Years
You’ll learn to:
Explain the relationship between nutrition, quality of life, and disease.
Evaluate various influences on food choices.
Explain the immediate and long term benefits of nutrition on body systems.

3. Vocabulary
Nutrition
Calories
Nutrients
Hunger
Appetite

4. Nutrition During the Teen Years
Nutrition process by which the body takes in and uses food.

5. Importance of Good Nutrition
Helps prevent disease
Helps body function properly
Helps body grow
Helps you look your best
Provides the body with high octane fuel

6. Calories & Nutrients
Calories are the unit of heat that measure the energy used by and the energy that foods supply to the body.
Nutrients are the substance in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy.

7. What Influences Your Food Choices?
Hunger
Food
Appetite
Emotions
Environment
Family, friends, peers
Cultural and ethnic background
Convenience and cost
advertising

8. Hunger & Appetite
Hunger is an unlearned, inborn response, natural drive that protects you from starvation.
Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.

9. Why We Eat Some foods taste so good that we just like to eat it.
Some people eat more when they are stressed, frustrated, depressed, or when they are bored.
Teens talk about Nutrition
Teen Nutrition