Healthy eating dietary habits among Polish teenagers What

Healthy eating & dietary habits among Polish teenagers

What is healthy eating? � Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods from the four food groups to feel good and maintain your health. Healthy eating can also lower your risk of disease and help you reach and maintain a healthy weight.

How to eat healthy? � � Eat the right types of food Eat the recommended amount of food for your age, sex, and activity level. Compare and choose healthier foods when shopping. Limit foods and drinks that are high in calories, fat, sugar, and sodium.

How to arrange healthy meals? � 1. Scrub & bag veggies. � 2. Eat more low-fat dairy. � 3. Pump up the lean protein. � 4. Pre-cook whole grains. � 5. Eat more veggies and less meat/grain products to your lunch.

How many calories does Teen need? � Age 13: 2000 -2600 � Age 14/15: 2200 -2800|3000 � Age 16/18: 2400 -3200 � Age 19: 2600 -3000

Healthy fats � Healthy fats are usually based in oils and plantbased foods. They can decrease your risk of heart disease and cholesterol levels. � Avocados � Cheese � Fatty Fish � Nuts � Virgin Olive Oil � Whole eggs

Full-value proteins �A complete protein or whole protein is a food source that contains an adequate proportion of each nine essential amino acids. � Red meat � Poultry � Milk � Yoghurt

Food pyramid � Food pyramid or diet pyramid is a diagram representing the optimal number of servings to be eaten each day from each of the basic food groups.

Water and how much to drink a day. � Water is very important and you need to drink adequate amounts of her. Health authorities reccomend eight 8 -ounce glasses, which equals about 2 liters but we should drink more when we do some physical activities.

How much fastfood the Polish eat? � Nowadays more and more Polish people eat fastfoods like MCDonalds, KFC and pizza. In anxiety 24% of asked are eating fast-foods at least once-a-week and 70% of asked eat fastfood at least one a month.

� At Overweight among Polish teenagers least 30% of teenagers have problems with their weight. They have unhealthy style of life and really badly composed diet. If we don’t want to have problems with overweight, we should drink less fizzy drinks, eat less fastfoods and be more active physically.

Eating veggies in Poland �A lot of teenagers give up on eating veggies and other healthy foods. Veggies are really good source of vitamins, minerals and they are really healthy and they don’t have a lot of calories. We should eat 3 portions of vegetables a day to feel better.

Eating fruit in Poland. � The fruit is really popular in Poland, but we eat them less than a few years ago, because fizzy drinks with their flavours are more and more popular. The fruit is a valuable source of vitamin A and C, it doesn’t have a lot of calories and it can help us with having energy and being healthy.

Alcohol and its calories � � � � If you probably know, alcohol has a lot of calories. It’s healthy in little portions, but if you drink a lot you can be drunk and have problems with organism. Vodka: 40 ml-110 kcal Whisky: 40 ml-100 kcal Brandy: 40 ml-112 kcal Rum: 40 ml-150 kcal Coffee Liqeur: 40 ml-170 kcal Red sweet Wine: 120 ml-150 kcal Beer: 500 ml-150/400 kcal

Questionnaire about eating fast foods conducted among the students from our school.

How often do you eat fast-food?

Fast food is:

Do you think that fast-food have an influence on our organism?

Why you choose fastfood?

Thanks for watching!!! � by Dominik Kozłowski, Polish Erasmus+ group.