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Lesson Lesson 1 1 What is your favorite snack? Because not all foods offer the same benefits, making healthful food choices is important to your overall level of health. Nutrition During the Teen Years
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LessonLesson 11What is your favorite snack?
Because not all foods offer the same benefits, making healthful food choices is important to your overall level of health.
Nutrition During the Teen Years
LessonLesson 11In 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
Lesson Objectives
Nutrition in Teens
LessonLesson 11Benefits 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.
The Importance of Good Nutrition
LessonLesson 11Hunger 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.
What Influences Your Food Choices?
LessonLesson 11Food 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.
What Influences Your Food Choices?
LessonLesson 11Food and Your Environment
Environmental factors that influence food choices include:
• Cultural and ethnic background
• Advertising
• Family, friends, and peers
• Convenience and cost
What Influences Your Food Choices?
LessonLesson 11Healthful Eating
Good nutrition is essential for health throughout life but particularly during adolescence.
Nutrition Throughout the Life Span
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.
LessonLesson 11
Q. The substances in food that
your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy are called _____.
1. calories
2. nutrition
3. nutrients
4. appetite
Choose the appropriate option.
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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.
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Q. _____ is a desire, rather
than a need, to eat.
1. Appetite
2. Hunger
3. Nutrition
4. Calories
Choose the appropriate option.
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A. 1. Appetite Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
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LessonLesson 11Quick Review
Q. A number of factors other
than family influence people’s food choices. Which of the factors listed below affect food choices?
Choose the appropriate option.
1. Friends and peers
2. Advertising
3. Convenience and cost
4. All of the above
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A. 4. All of the aboveA 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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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
Choose the appropriate option.
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A. False. What you eat now affects your health, both now and as you grow older.
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LessonLesson 11
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.
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.
Calories are the units of heat that measure the energy used by the body and the energy that foods supply to the body.
LessonLesson 11
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.
Benefits of Good Nutrition
The Importance of Good Nutrition
Nutrients are the substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy.
Nutrients are the substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy.
LessonLesson 11
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
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.
Hunger and Appetite
Hunger is a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation.
Hunger is a natural physical drive that protects you from starvation.
When You Eat
What Influences Your Food Choices?
LessonLesson 11
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
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.
Hunger and Appetite
Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
When You Eat
What Influences Your Food Choices?
LessonLesson 11
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.
Good nutrition is essential for health throughout life but particularly during adolescence.
Healthful Eating
Nutrition is the process by which the body takes in and uses food.
Nutrition is the process by which the body takes in and uses food.
Nutrition Throughout the Life Span
LessonLesson 11
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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Quick Review - Answer
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You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.
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LessonLesson 11
A. Correct! Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
Click Next to attempt another question.
Quick Review - Answer
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You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.
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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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LessonLesson 11
You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.
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LessonLesson 11
A. Correct! What you eat now affects your health, both now and as you grow older.
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Quick Review - Answer
LessonLesson 11
You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.
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