Class: Health I

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Lesson Plan

• Class Health I
• Unit Nutrition
• Instructor Ms. Zupanc

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Objectives

• 1. SWBAT Define BMI and determine their own body
  mass index.
• 2. SWBAT List the risks associated with obesity
  and heart disease.
• 3. SWBAT Find their waist circumference and the
  sizes that are of risk for men and women.
• 4. SWBAT Use the internet to take a quiz
  regarding portion sizes.

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CHAPTER 5 Nutrition and Your Health
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Lesson 1 Vocabulary

• Nutrients Elements in food that your body needs
  for energy, to grow, and to repair itself.
• Hunger Natural drive that protects you from
  starvation (physical)
• Appetite A desire rather than a need to eat.

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What Affects your Appetite?
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Factors That Contribute To Our Eating Habits

• Environment
• Culture
• Family and Friends / Peer Pressure
• Advertising
• Time and Money
• Emotional Eating

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T.V. Time

• The average child sees more than 20,000
  commercials each year.
• What kinds of advertisements are most common?
• How do you feel about this? Is there a
  connection?

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• Eating is linked to 6 leading causes of death in
  the U.S.
• Why???

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OBESITY

• Obesity (excess body fat) is surpassing smoking
  as the number one preventable death in the U.S.
• What does that mean to you?

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Nutrition

• Nutrition The process by which the body takes
  in and uses food.
• What are empty calories?
• How can we manage our eating habits???

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Nutrients, Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats

• What are they???
• On a sheet of paper list as many foods as you can
  that are sources of that nutrient

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Carbohydrates

• Carbohydrate Starches and sugars found in
  foods, bodys preferred source of energy.
• Simple and complex
• What is the difference?
• 55-66 of daily calories

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Carbs

• Simple Carbs Sugars found in fruits, veggies
  and milk. Also in candy, soda, sweets, salad
  dressing, soups, breads.
• No Good fructose, maltose, sucrose, oils,
  syrups
• Complex Carbs (Good) Starches found in rice,
  grains, seeds, nuts, legumes (beans). Much
  better for you.

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Glucose

• The bodys chief fuel and a
  simple sugar
• When it is not used right away it is stored in
  the liver and muscles as
• Glycogen A starch-like substance
• What happens if we have enough carbs stored and
  enough for energy needs???

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Whats up with the low carb craze?

• Why are carbohydrate foods considered fattening?
• Describe the low carb diets that are popular.
  What is your opinion regarding them?
• List all of the simple and complex carbs you have
  consumed in the past 24 hours.

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Fiber

• Where can you find it?
• The tough, stringy part of veggies, fruits and
  grains
• Complex carb
• It is not digested
• Why should you eat it?
• Moves waste through your digestive system
• Gives a feeling of fullness
• Reduces risk of cancer and heart disease
• 25 GRAMS A DAY!

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F.Y.I.

• Americans eat their own weight in sugar every
  year
• This primarily comes from where?
• What is the relationship between carbohydrates
  and tooth decay?

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Proteins

• Are nutrients that help build and maintain body
  tissues.
• Found in Muscle, bone, connective tissue, teeth,
  skin, blood, vital organs
• Remember antibodies?
• Provide 4 calories per gram
• Excess is converted into fat

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Proteins

• Amino acids Substances that make up the bodys
  proteins
• Body makes 11 out of 20 on its own
• The other 9 acids are called Essential Amino
  Acids b/c they come from foods that you eat

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More Proteins

• Complete Foods that contain all of the
  essential amino acids that the body needs
• Examples Fish, meat , eggs, milk, cheese,
  yogurt, soybean
• Incomplete Foods lack some of the essential
  amino acids
• Examples Legumes, nuts, whole grains, seeds

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FAT

• Fats deliver more than twice the amount of energy
  as compared to carbs and protein
• We do need some
• Lipid A fatty substance that does not dissolve
  in water

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FAT

• Cholesterol a fatlike substance produced in the
  liver of all animals and found only in foods of
  animal origin
• Dietary Guidelines
• Teenage Girl 2,200 calories or 66 grams of fat /
  day
• Teenage Boy 2,800 calories or 84 grams of fat /
  day

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Calories Vs. Fat

• http//www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obes
  ity/lose_wt/cal_cnt.htm
• Healthy Shopping What to Buy
• http//www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesi
  ty/lose_wt/shop.htm

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Good Resources On The

• National Institute of health (portion distortion
  quiz, BMI) http//www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/
  heart/index.htm
• New Food Guide Pyramid and other good info.
  http//www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyrami
  ds.html

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Vitamins

• Regulate important body processes like digestion
  and metabolism
• Water-soluble Dissolve in water and pass easily
  into the blood stream.
• Excrete excess amounts
• Are not stored in the body
• Cook carefully (steam with little water!)

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VITAMINS

• Fat-Soluble Vitamins
• A, D, E, K
• Are stored in the bodys fatty tissue, liver, and
  kidneys
• High amounts of these can be toxic