1. Nutrition for Health and Social Care
Unit 21
Nutrition for Health and Social Care

2. Unit Objectives Understand the concepts of nutritional health
Know the characteristics of nutrients
Understand influences on dietary intake and nutritional health
Be able to use dietary and other relevant information from and individual to make recommendations to improve nutritional health.

3. What do you think?
Why do you think nutritional health is important in health and social care?
Which part of this unit will you find the most difficult and why?
Which aspects of health and nutrition to you find the most interesting and why?

4. What do you know about healthy eating

5. What is …… Any substance eaten to nourish the body.
Food
Diet
Any substance eaten to nourish the body.
Can be solid or liquid
Taken by mouth, tube or directly into a vein.
Food eaten regularly by a person.
Not always referring to weightl oss
All the meals and snacks that a person eats.
What is ……

6. Meals and snacks
Nutrients
3 meals a day!
Snacks are taken between meals if you feel hungry.
Snacks are not necessarily unhealthy.
Specific chemical constituents of food that provide energy or growth, repair or normal functioning of the body.
Include proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals.
Think about – how often do people living in health and social care settings have access to snacks outside of meal regimes?
What is ……

7. London 2012: be inspired
Diary Task
Healthy Eating Tips