1. Healthy Eating 7 TH GRADE HEALTH

2. Essential Nutrients  Vitamins  Minerals

3. Essential Vitamins  Vitamin A : helps produce healthy skin cells, produces healthy vision, boosts your immune system, and helps fight infection.  Sources: Sweet Potato, Carrots, Dark Leafy Greens, Cantaloupe  Vitamin B : helps convert food into fuel (produces energy), healthy nervous system, needed for healthy skin, hair, eyes, and liver.  Whole unprocessed foods, whole grains, potatoes, lentils, bananas, and beans.  Vitamin C : helps produce collagen (skin, tendons, and ligaments), microbiological performances. Antioxidant.  Sources: any citrus fruits (oranges, limes, lemons, grapefruit), kiwi, strawberries, red and green peppers.

4. Essential Vitamins  Vitamin D : helps you absorb calcium (strong bones and teeth), strong blood vessels, regulates insulin levels. Body can produce its own Vitamin D with the help of the sun.  Sources: Eggs, fish, mushrooms, milk  Folic Acid : helps with proper brain function, healthy red blood cells, prevents major health defects.  Sources: dark green veggies (asparagus, broccoli, brussel sprouts, spinach), egg yolk, many fruits, peas, milk.

5. Essential Minerals  Iron : essential for blood production and building muscles.  Sources: clams, oysters, organ meat, pumpkin seeds, beans, spinach.  Calcium : healthy bones and teeth, muscle contraction, nerve function, blood clotting, and cell signaling.  Sources: milk, yogurt, cheese, leafy greens (spinach).  Sodium : balances fluid in your cells, muscle contraction, nerve transmission.  Sources: table salt, breads, some in veggies, unprocessed meats  Iodine : found in thyroid hormone, regulates growth, and metabolism  Sources: sea food, food grown in Iodine rich soil, bread, some dairy products

6. You and Fast Food  Like or dislike?  How often?  How much is consumed?

7. What does fast food look like?  FDA recommended DAILY intake? * 2000 Calories Chipotle Carnitas Barito: 945 calories Chips and Guacamole: 770 calories Coke: 276 calories

8. What does fast food look like?  Sonic *Peanut Butter Caramel Pie Shake: 2,090 calories

9. What does fast food look like?  McDonald’s *Crispy Chicken sandwich with bacon: 750 calories *Fries: 340 calories *Coke: 200 calories *McFlurry (oreos): 690 calories

10. What does food look like?  Wendy’s *Baconator Cheeseburger: 940 calories *Potato with bacon and cheese:520 calories *Caesar salad: 250 calorie *Coke: 320 calories

11. What does 2000 calories look like?  Good ol’ Home Cooking  2000 for three meals

12. Additives!  Nutrition Labels  1. Tartrazine and other food dyes  2. Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)  3. Propyl gallate  4. Sodium nitrite  5. TBHQ (tert-Butylhydroquinone)  6. Silicon dioxide, silica and calcium silicate  7. Triacetin (glycerol triacetate)  http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/10/health/chemical-food-additives/ http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/10/health/chemical-food-additives/

13. Health Risk Factors  Top 10 leading causes of death: #1. Heart Disease -umbrella term -Atherosclerosis -tissue death

14. Health Risk Factors  #2. Cancer  -malignant tumors  -travels through blood and lymph  -invasion

15. Health Risk Factors  #4. Cerebrovascular diseases  -plaque prohibits blood flow to brain  -stroke

16. Health Risk Factors  #7. Diabetes  -insulin  -type 1 and type 2

17. Improving our health