1. Nutrition

2. Nutrition
The study of how your bodies use the substances in food to maintain our health
Affects your everyday tasks
Helps you grow and repair your body
Food affects feelings:
Hunger
peoples eating habits are affected when they are sad, happy, and nervous

3. Nutrition
Digestion- is the process in which food is broken down into a form your body can use
Nutrients- are the substances found in food that your body needs to function properly.
Your body makes some but most come from food
Metabolism- the process of turning nutrients into usable energy.

4. Nutrition Diet- is a pattern of eating Not always about losing weight
Diet includes: when your eat, what you eat, how much you eat.
Many factors affect diet, one for example is food choices

5. Food choices There are 6 factors that affect food choices:
Your personal taste
Family traditions
Convenience of foods
Overall cost of food
Foods your friends eat
Availability of foods in your area

6. Nutrients 6 essential nutrients:
Fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and water
Fats, proteins, and carbohydrates are used for energy
Vitamins and minerals control bodily functions
Water controls temperature and is a transportation system.

7. Carbohydrates Chemical composed of one or more simple sugars
Can be sugar or starch
Starches are many simple sugars
Fiber is carb that cannot be broken down
1 gram of carbs is 4 calories

8. Fats Nutrients that store energy and store vitamins
Can be found in solid or liquid
Makes food taste better
Contains more calories than any nutrient, 1 gram of fat is 9 calories.
Eating foods high in fat will put more calories in the body then needed, these extra calories are stored as fat
Fat can block flow to the heart

9. Proteins
Nutrients that are used for building, maintaining, and repairing tissues and cells.
Help make food into energy
Meats and poultry good forms of protein
1 gram of protein is 4 calories

10. Vitamins and minerals
Vitamins- organic compounds that control many body functions
Minerals- elements that are essential for good health.
Can be found in all grown products
Each vitamin and mineral has a certain function
For example vitamin A helps with vision, and the mineral calcium helps build bones.

11. Water No energy from water
Can live for several weeks without food, but without water a person can only live a few days
Is used to fill spaces in the body, and lubricate and transport
Regulates body temperature
Drink water

12. Balancing your diet(pg. 102)
The dietary guidelines for Americans
The food guide pyramid
The nutrition facts label
What is a serving size
What is a portion
Build healthy eating habits

13. Healthy body and body weight
What is body image
Is the way you see and imagine your body
What is a healthy and unhealthy body image
Building a healthy body image
The media, family
I statements
Eating disorders/Over exercising
Managing your weight
Healthy weight range
What affects weight
Keeping a healthy weight
Why do you eat
Eating healthfully
Stay physically active