Wellness and Food Choices

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Wellness and Food Choices

• Chapter 1

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Wellness is your choice for life

• Wellness- reaching for your best level of health.
• Involves 4 aspects of health physical,
  emotional, mental, and social
• Good health
• can improve appearance,
• self-esteem
• ability to handle stress
• physical and mental performance.

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• Wellness doesnt mean having perfect body or
  never having health problems
• Factor an element that contributes to a
  particular result
• Genetics
• Certain life events

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• Lifestyle how you live your life and everything
  you do
• Always on the go
• Plan quick meals
• Eat away from home often

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Healthy lifestyle includes

• Regular physical activity
• Effective ways to manage stress
• Good nutrition
• Nutrition processes by which your body uses
  nutrients in food for growth, energy, and
  maintenance

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• Good physical health body is working the way it
  should
• Signs of good health
• Firm skin
• Clean teeth
• Healthy gums
• Mental and emotional health how you deal with
  daily life and how you feel about yourself
• Signs of good mental and emotional health
• Positive attitude
• Enjoy life
• Able to cope with change, face problems, and
  handle anger/disappointment
• Stress mental, emotional, or physical strain
• Unavoidable, but you can control how you react to
  it
• Uncontrolled stress can have negative effects

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Social health

• Involves your relationships
• Good social health
• Praise others and accept/appreciate their
  differences
• Enjoy friends, both genders, all ages
• Be helpful and considerate
• Accept rules and be responsible

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Why you eat what you eat

• Culture- shared beliefs, values, and behaviors of
  a group of people
• Resource- something you use to get what you want,
  meet goals, and complete tasks
• Time, money, and energy

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Make time for family meals

• Promotes positive feelings about healthful eating
• Studies show eating together
• helps family members eat healthier
• Children who regularly have meals with their
  parents eat more fruits, vegetables, and calcium
  rich foods
• Children eat more vitamins and nutrients and more
  nourishing food
• Lower risk for unhealthy behaviors

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What factors influence peoples food decisions?

• Hunger-physical need for food
• Empty stomach that contracts or growls signals
  hunger
• Appetite- psychological desire for food
• Sight, aroma, and taste can stimulate appetite

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Sensing foods flavor

• Flavor-combination of foods taste, smell, and
  texture
• Taste with your mouth, mostly your tongue
• Papillae-tiny bumps that contain taste buds
• Has 100s of taste buds, distinguish sweet, salty,
  bitter, and umami (broth like taste in meat, veg,
  cheese)
• Smell accounts for 80 of flavor