THE POWER OF CHOICE

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THE POWER OF CHOICE

• How do you make food choices?

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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1985
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1986
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1987
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1988
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1989
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1990
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1991
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1992
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1993
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1994
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
No Data lt10 1014
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1995
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1996
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1997
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1998
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
No Data lt10 1014
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1999
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
No Data lt10 1014
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2000
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2001
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2002
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
No Data lt10 1014
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2003
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
No Data lt10 1014
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2004
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2005
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2006
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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How do YOU prevent Obesity?

• Make a list of three GOALS that you can
  personally do to prevent obesity.
• 1. ________________________________
• Example_________________________
• 2._________________________________
• Example_________________________
• 3.__________________________________
• Example_________________________

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Dietary Guidelines

• Eat a variety of foods and keep foods safe to eat
  no single food has everything your body needs
• Balance the food with your physical activity-help
  maintain weight
• Choose a diet low in fat, saturated fat, and
  cholesterol
• Choose diet with plenty of grain products,
  vegetables, and fruits Have vitamins A,C,E
  which reduce cancer and heart disease
• Choose diet moderate in sugars, salt, and sodium
• Do not drink alcohol harms brain cells and
  damage liver and others, increases risk of HBP,
  heart disease, stroke, malnutrition

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Food Videos

• Dont Be a Gambler!
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Food Guide Pyramid
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Vegetarian Diets

• Benefits
• low in fats, saturated fats, and cholesterol
  (animal products) gt reduces blood pressure
• Easier to maintain weight
• Types of Vegetarians
• Vegan excludes foods of animal origin
• Lacto-vegetarian excludes eggs, fish, poultry,
  and meat
• Ovo-lacto-vegetarian excludes eggs, fish, red
  meat
• Semi-vegetarian excludes red meats

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PROTEINS

• Proteins nutrient needed for growth, and to
  build and repair body tissues. Make up more than
  50 of your total body weight!
• Complete all essential amino acids. Body needs
  20 and can only produce 11. Ex. Meat, fish, milk,
  eggs
• Incomplete from plant sources that does not
  contain all amino acids. Ex. Grains, legumes,
  nuts and seeds

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CARBOHYDRATES

• Carbohydrate main source of energy for body Ex.
  Sugars, starches, fiber
• Two Types of Carbohydrates
• Simple-enter bloodstream rapidly
• Complex-starches (long lasting energy) and fibers
  (grains and plants-not digested)
• Glucose provide energy and heat
• Glycogen remaining glucose stored in muscles
  and turns into energy when your body needs it
• Fibers (roughage) helps move food through
  digestive system.
• Ex. Wheat, bran, barley, oats, rye
• Insoluble prevents constipation! Dont make
  yourself go to the bathroom!
• Soluble reduces levels of cholesterol

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FATS

• Fats nutrient that provides energy and helps
  the body store and use vitamins
• (1 gram fat supplies 9 calories of energy)
• Visible Fats fat you can see (meats)
• Invisible Fats fat you cant see (cake)
• Trans-fatty Acids fatty acids are formed when
  vegetable oils are processed into solid fats (Ex.
  Margarine or shortening)
• Saturated Fats fat found in dairy, vegetable
  fat, meat and poultry
• Unsaturated Fats fat obtained from plant
  products and fish
• Polyunsaturated-sunflower, corn, soybeans
• Monounsaturated-olive and canola oils

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Minerals

• Mineral nutrient that regulates many chemical
  reactions in body
• Two types
• Macro-minerals minerals required in amounts
  more than 100mg.
• Ex. Calcium and Sodium
• 2. Trace-minerals minerals needed in small
  amounts
• Ex. Iron and zinc

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Vitamins

• Two types of Vitamins
• Fat-Soluble dissolves in fat and can be stored
  in body.
• Ex. Vitamins A,D,E,K
• Water-Soluble dissolves in water but cannot be
  stored in body.
• Ex. Vitamins B,C

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Homework Assignment

• On a piece of computer paper you will draw a
  human body and label parts of the body according
  to the food pyramid (ppt or p295), vitamins
  (p286), minerals (p287)
• DUE next class period

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Did You Know?

• http//www.thecocacolacompany.com/mail/goodanswer/
  soft_drink_nutrition.pdf

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Nutrition Facts The Label

• Nutrition Facts title of information required
  on most foods
• Serving Size listing of the amount of food
  (Trick - Look for how many servings)
• Servings per Container listing of the number
  servings per container
• Calories listing number of calories
• Calories from fat number of calories from fat
• Percent Daily Value the total of carbohydrates,
  dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals per day. Your
  goal should add up to 100 daily.

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How to Decode Food Labels

• Ingredients listed by greatest weight to least
  weight
• Check the dates look for
• Sell By
• Best If Used By
• Healthy low in fat and saturated fat, no more
  than 60 mg of cholesterol per serving
• Fat Free less than .5 grams of fat per serving
• Low Fat less than 3 grams of fat per serving
• Lean less than 10 grams of fat, 4.5 saturated
  fat, no more than 95 mg of cholesterol per
  serving
• Light 1/3 calories or no more than half the fat
  or sodium of regular version
• Cholesterol Free less than .5 cholesterol and 2
  grams or less saturated fat per serving
• ___ Free no fat, sodium, sugar, or caffeine
  free
• Fresh raw, unprocessed, no preservatives, never
  been frozen or heated

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Tips to Fight Off Disease

• Avoid Obesity obesity is body weight that is
  more than 20 (more than 20 increases risks of
  cancers of uterus, breast, gallbladder, prostate
  gland, and colon
• Limit fat and cholesterol intake
• Cholesterol 2 types
• HDL good cholesterol lowers risk of CVD
• LDL bad cholesterol increases risk of CVD
• (CVD Cardiovascular disease)
• Do not drink alcohol
• Eat several servings of fruits, vegetables, fiber
  every day provide antioxidants
• Antioxidants substance that protects cells from
  being damaged by oxidation (Vitamins A,C,E)

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Preventable Diseases with Diet

• Osteoporosis disease in which the density of
  bone decreases which can lead to bones breaking
  easily
• Hypoglycemia too much insulin in body causing
  blood sugar level to be too low
• Celiac person is intolerant to gluten
• Lactase Deficiency lactase, an enzyme breaks
  down milk sugar present in cells of the small
  intestine

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Diabetes

• Diabetes affects about 17 million Americans,
  including 1 million Texans.
• The number of US adults diagnosed with diabetes
  has increased by 60 over the last ten years.
• Two types of Diabetes I and II
• Type I immune system of people destroy
  pancreatic cells that make insulin. Most are
  children or adolescents. Take injections of
  insulin.
• Type II Adult On-set Diabetes 95 of adults
  with this disease. Most can control disease by
  changing their diet, exercise, and weight.

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Nutrition Review

• 1. Page 293 (1-10)
• 2. Page 301 (1-18)
• 3. Page 309 (1-10)
• Cheat Sheet one page front and back
• You may use your review OR make a cheat sheet for
  the test
• TEST next class period

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