1. Nutrition During the Teen Years
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Because not all foods offer the same benefits, making healthful food choices is important to your overall level of health.

2. In this lesson, you will learn to:
Lesson Objectives
In this lesson, you will learn to:
Analyze the relationship between nutrition, quality of life, and disease
Evaluate various influences on food choices
Describe the immediate and long-term benefits of nutrition on body systems
Nutrition in Teens

3. The Importance of Good Nutrition
Benefits of Good Nutrition
Making healthy food choices will provide your body with the nutrients it needs to help you look your best and perform at
your peak.
Good nutrition:
Enhances your quality of life.
Helps prevent disease.
Provides you with the calories and nutrients your body needs.

4. What Influences Your Food Choices?
Hunger and Appetite
Hunger is the physical need for food. When you eat “just to be sociable” or in response to a familiar sensation, you are eating in response to appetite rather than to hunger.
When Your Stomach is Empty
When You Eat
Its walls contract, stimulating nerve endings.
The nerves signal your brain that your body needs food.
The walls of the stomach are stretched.
The nerve endings are no longer stimulated.

5. What Influences Your Food Choices?
Food and Emotions
If you lose interest in eating whenever you’re upset, you may miss getting enough nutrients.
Eating to relieve tension or to reward yourself can result in overeating.
Recognizing when emotions are guiding your food choices can help you break such patterns and improve your eating habits.

6. What Influences Your Food Choices?
Food and Your Environment
Environmental factors that influence food choices include:
Cultural and ethnic background
Advertising
Family, friends, and peers
Convenience and cost

7. Nutrition Throughout the Life Span
Healthful Eating
Good nutrition is essential for health throughout life but particularly during adolescence.
A healthful and balanced eating plan:
Provides you with nutrients.
Gives you energy.
Enables you to stay alert.
Helps prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Lowers the risk of developing life-threatening conditions.

8. Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q. The substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy are called _____.
calories
nutrition
nutrients
appetite

9. A. 3. nutrients Quick Review - Answer
The substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy are called nutrients.
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10. Q. _____ is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q. _____ is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
Appetite
Hunger
Nutrition
Calories

11. A. 1. Appetite Quick Review - Answer
Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
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12. Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q. A number of factors other than family influence people’s food choices. Which of the factors listed below affect food choices?
Friends and peers
Advertising
Convenience and cost
All of the above

13. A. 4. All of the above Quick Review - Answer
A number of factors other than family influence people’s food choices. Some of those factors are friends and peers, advertising, convenience, and cost.
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14. Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q. As long as you eat three square meals a day, what you eat now does not affect your health, either now or as you grow older.
True
False

15. Quick Review - Answer
A. False. What you eat now affects your health, both now and as you grow older.

16. End of Lesson 1
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17. The Importance of Good Nutrition
Benefits of Good Nutrition
Calories are the units of heat that measure the energy used by the body and the energy that foods supply to the body.
Making healthy food choices will provide your body with the nutrients it needs to help you look your best and perform at
your peak.
Good nutrition:
Enhances your quality of life.
Helps prevent disease.
Provides you with the calories and nutrients your body needs.

18. The Importance of Good Nutrition
Benefits of Good Nutrition
Making healthy food choices will provide your body with the nutrients it needs to help you look your best and perform at
your peak.
Good nutrition:
Enhances your quality of life.
Helps prevent disease.
Provides you with the calories and nutrients your body needs.
Nutrients are the substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy.

19. What Influences Your Food Choices?
Hunger and Appetite
Hunger is a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation.
Hunger is the physical need for food. When you eat “just to be sociable” or in response to a familiar sensation, you are eating in response to appetite rather than to hunger.
When Your Stomach is Empty
When You Eat
Its walls contract, stimulating nerve endings.
The nerves signal your brain that your body needs food.
The walls of the stomach are stretched.
The nerve endings are no longer stimulated.

20. What Influences Your Food Choices?
Hunger and Appetite
Hunger is the physical need for food. When you eat “just to be sociable” or in response to a familiar sensation, you are eating in response to appetite rather than to hunger.
Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
When Your Stomach is Empty
When You Eat
Its walls contract, stimulating nerve endings.
The nerves signal your brain that your body needs food.
The walls of the stomach are stretched.
The nerve endings are no longer stimulated.

21. Nutrition Throughout the Life Span
Healthful Eating
Good nutrition is essential for health throughout life but particularly during adolescence.
Nutrition is the process by which the body takes in and uses food.
A healthful and balanced eating plan:
Provides you with nutrients.
Gives you energy.
Enables you to stay alert.
Helps prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Lowers the risk of developing life-threatening conditions.

22. Quick Review - Answer
A. Correct! The substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy are called nutrients.
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23. Quick Review - Answer
You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

24. A. Correct! Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
Quick Review - Answer
A. Correct! Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
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25. Quick Review - Answer
You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

26. Quick Review - Answer
A. Correct! A number of factors other than family influence people’s food choices. Some of those factors are friends and peers, advertising, convenience, and cost.
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27. Quick Review - Answer
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28. Quick Review - Answer
A. Correct! What you eat now affects your health, both now and as you grow older.
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29. Quick Review - Answer
You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.