1. Nutrition and Your Health
Chapter 5
Nutrition and Your Health

2. Warm Up Complete the Generalized Well Being Scale on pages 1-5.
Total your points on page 4
Circle your score on page 5

3. Keep body healthy/ immune system
Energy for physical activity
Bone & muscle growth
The process of breaking down food into a form your body can use.
WHY DOES THE BODY NEED NUTRIENTS?
WHAT IS DIGESTION?

4. WHAT IS A DIET?
A pattern of eating that includes:
What a person eats
How much a person eats
How often a person eats.

5. HOW DO YOUR FEELINGS AFFECT YOUR FOOD CHOICES?
Eat even if not hungry
Eat when nervous or upset
Eat when excited or happy
Celebrations

6. THE NUTRIENTS YOU NEED HOW DOES THE BODY USE NUTRIENTS?
WHAT ARE CALORIES?
Energy for:
Growth
Maintenance
Repair
Maintain certain body functions
The amount of energy your body gets from food

7. WHAT IS METABOLISM?
The process of converting the energy in food into energy your body can use.

8. Carbohydrates Made up of sugars Give you QUICK energy
Too much is unhealthy because extra carbs get stored as fat

9. Carb Sources Cereal Fruit Pasta Bread Rice Honey Table Sugar
Vegetables
Potatoes

10. Proteins Build & heal body tissue Broken down into amino acids
Muscle development

11. Protein Sources Steak Chicken Fish Nuts Beans Tofu Milk (soy) Eggs
Cheese

12. Fats
Body needs small amount to stay healthy
LONG-TERM energy

13. Fat sources Oil Butter Sour cream Cream cheese Steak Ham Eggs Cheese
Whole milk
Fried foods

14. Vitamins
Organic compounds that control several body functions such as digestion & absorption

15. Vitamin sources Carrots-Vitamin A Orange Juice—Vitamin C Whole Grains
Mint
Vitamin Water
Multivitamin
Multigrain bar

16. Minerals
Elements necessary for good health—form bones & teeth, regulate body processes

17. Mineral sources Sardines (Calcium) Milk (Calcium) Bananas (potassium)
Salt (sodium)
Meat, beans, egg (Iron)

18. Water
Carries nutrients & waste
Most important!!
60%-70% of your body

20. Water sources Water Soup Juice Vitamin water Gatorade Milk Vegetables
Fruit

21. Body Fat vs. Body Water Body Fat % Body Water 4-20% 58-70%
4-20% %
21-29% %
30-32% %
33% %

22. Page 6 : Make sure your food journal is completed.
Pages 18-19: Choose your best day and worst day of the week. Use the information to fill in the plates. Write everything you ate into the correct area of the plate.
On the bottom of the page write what you did well (good choice) and something you could improve (poor choice).
Pages 22-23: Complete “Eating & Emotions” quiz/questions
Reminders:
The following pages should be completed in your packet:
1-6, 8-10, 17, & 22-23
If you missed the video you can write 10 nutrition facts from your textbook on page 27
BRING YOUR TEXTBOOKS!