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Nutrition During the Teen Years

What is your favorite snack?. Nutrition During the Teen Years. Because not all foods offer the same benefits, making healthful food choices is important to your overall level of health. In this lesson, you will learn to:. Lesson Objectives.

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Nutrition During the Teen Years

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  1. What is your favorite snack? Nutrition During the Teen Years 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 • 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

  3. Benefits of Good Nutrition The Importance of Good Nutrition • Making healthy food choices will provide your body with the nutrientsit 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. Hunger and Appetite What Influences Your Food Choices? 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. Food and Emotions What Influences Your Food Choices? • 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. Food and Your Environment What Influences Your Food Choices? • Environmental factors that influence food choices include: • Cultural and ethnic background • Advertising • Family, friends, and peers • Convenience and cost

  7. Healthful Eating Nutrition Throughout the Life Span 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. Choose the appropriate option. Quick Review 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. Quick Review - Answer A.3. nutrients The substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy are called nutrients. Click Next to attempt another question.

  10. Choose the appropriate option. Quick Review Q._____ is a desire, rather than a need, to eat. • Appetite • Hunger • Nutrition • Calories

  11. Quick Review - Answer A.1. Appetite Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat. Click Next to attempt another question.

  12. Choose the appropriate option. Quick Review 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. Quick Review - Answer A.4. All of the above A number of factors other than family influence people’s food choices. Some of those factors are friends and peers, advertising, convenience, and cost. Click Next to attempt another question.

  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 Click Home to view the Main menu.

  17. Benefits of Good Nutrition The Importance 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 nutrientsit 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. Benefits of Good Nutrition The Importance of Good Nutrition • Making healthy food choices will provide your body with the nutrientsit 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. Hunger and Appetite Hunger is a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation. What Influences Your Food Choices? 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. Hunger and Appetite What Influences Your Food Choices? 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. Healthful Eating Nutrition Throughout the Life Span 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. Click Next to attempt another question.

  23. Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

  24. Quick Review - Answer A.Correct!Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat. Click Next to attempt another question.

  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. Click Next to attempt another question.

  27. Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

  28. Quick Review - Answer A.Correct!What you eat now affects your health, both now and as you grow older. Click Next to attempt another question.

  29. Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

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