1. Importance of Nutrition
Think about today:
What is the role of food?
What influences your food choices?
Is there a difference between appetite and hunger?
Do we all have the same nutrient needs?

2. What is the role of food? How does food affect my health triangle?

3. Nutrients
Substances in food that your body needs

4. Nutrition
The study of nutrients and how the body uses them

5. What influences your food choices?

6. Influences: Families’ cultural background Availability Peer Pressure
Convenience
Knowledge of Nutrition
Advertising
Emotions

7. Appetite vs. Hunger? Appetite – the psychological desire for food.
I want….
Hunger – the physical need for food.
I need….

8. Influencing Factors:
Mario is Italian and lives in an Italian neighborhood. He is eating pasta with rich tomato sauce.

9. Influencing Factors:
KiKi is tired from a long day. As soon as she arrived home, she found out that the boy she likes is seeing another girl. She is eating chocolate ice cream.

10. Influencing Factors:
Nora lives in an area surrounded by high mountains. In the winter the trucks are often unable to get fresh fruits and vegetables to the stores near her home. As a result, sometimes she goes months without having a salad or fresh oranges.

11. Influencing Factors:
Last summer, Xavier visited his grandmother in France. His grandmother baked the best bread he had ever tasted. She let him eat it warm, as soon as it came out of the oven. Xavier still craves warm, fresh bread many months later.

12. Influencing Factors:
Olivia plays on her school’s basketball team. After practice she eats a protein bar and a banana. Then she looks forward to her dinner.

13. Importance of Nutrition
Think about today:
What is the role of food?
What influences your food choices?
Is there a difference between appetite and hunger?
Do we all have the same nutrient needs?