Nutrition

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Nutrition
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Starter Activity

• List all of the things you have eaten in the last
  two days in one column and in the next write down
  whether you ate the food because you really
  needed to or did it just because it was there.

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Lesson Objectives

1. Understand the basic idea of nutrition
2. Develop an understanding of food groups
3. Place food in a practical scenario

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Why do we to eat?

• Physical
• Psychological
• Social

Our bodies need food to function, muscles need
food so that they can contract and we can move
Comfort eating
We eat because it is a pleasurable experience and
it makes us feel safe
The environment in which we eat is important and
we sometimes eat when others do
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Activity
Now look back at your starter piece of work and
in the third column write down whether it was a
psychological, physical or social reason.
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Each food component is called a nutrient. Each of
these is essential to diet and has a main role or
function in the body.
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Carbohydrates

• Create a List of CHO and try to classify them
  into 2 main categories.

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Fats

• Create a List of FATS and try to classify them
  into 3 main categories.

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Remember lads what does a woman really want?
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Proteins
Create a List of Proteins and try to classify
them into 2 main categories.
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Vitamins and Minerals

• These are essential for bodily functions. Your
  diet of fruit and vegetables will contain most of
  these but you will need some animal products to
  get Vitamin B12 and D.

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Dietary Fiber

• Dietary fiber is not digested by the body but it
  is used to maintain the function of the gut.
  Most of the foods that contain this type of fibre
  are rich in carbohydrates.

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Water vital to survival

• Cell function.
• Maintaining body temperature through sweating.
• Transportation of nutrients and the movement of
  blood.
• Removal of waste products via urination and
  breathing.
• Lubrication of the joints.

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Activity

• Write out the foods you have eaten today and
  divide them up into the main categories listed in
  the previous slides.

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Independent Study

• Explain in a half page typed summary of what a
  balanced diet is, and find an example of a good
  balanced meal. Use the web or library to find
  your information.

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Plenary

• Tell the person sitting next to you about one of
  the six categories of food. They will then talk
  about another.