Lesson 1 Nutrition During the Teen Years What

Lesson 1 Nutrition During the Teen Years What is your favorite snack? Because not all foods offer the same benefits, making healthful food choices is important to your overall level of health.

Lesson 1 Lesson Objectives In this lesson, you will learn to: • Analyze the relationship between nutrition, quality of life, and disease • Evaluate various influences on food choices • Describe the immediate and long-term benefits of nutrition on body systems

Lesson 1 The Importance of Good Nutrition Benefits of Good Nutrition Making healthy food choices will provide your body with the nutrients it needs to help you look your best and perform at your peak. Good nutrition: • Enhances your quality of life. • Helps prevent disease. • Provides you with the calories and nutrients your body needs.

Lesson 1 What Influences Your Food Choices? Hunger and Appetite Hunger is the physical need for food. When you eat “just to be sociable” or in response to a familiar sensation, you are eating in response to appetite rather than to hunger. When Your Stomach is Empty When You Eat Its walls contract, stimulating nerve endings. The walls of the stomach are stretched. The nerves signal your brain that your body needs food. The nerve endings are no longer stimulated.

Lesson 1 What Influences Your Food Choices? Food and Emotions • If you lose interest in eating whenever you’re upset, you may miss getting enough nutrients. • Eating to relieve tension or to reward yourself can result in overeating. • Recognizing when emotions are guiding your food choices can help you break such patterns and improve your eating habits.

Lesson 1 What Influences Your Food Choices? Food and Your Environmental factors that influence food choices include: • Cultural and ethnic background • Advertising • Family, friends, and peers • Convenience and cost

Lesson 1 Nutrition Throughout the Life Span Healthful Eating Good nutrition is essential for health throughout life but particularly during adolescence. A healthful and balanced eating plan: • Provides you with nutrients. • Gives you energy. • Enables you to stay alert. • Helps prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes. • Lowers the risk of developing life-threatening conditions.

Lesson 1 Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q. The substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy are called _____. 1. calories 2. nutrition 3. nutrients 4. appetite

Lesson 1 A. Quick Review - Answer 3. nutrients The substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy are called nutrients. Click Next to attempt another question.

Lesson 1 Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q. 1. Appetite _____ is a desire, rather than a need, to eat. 2. Hunger 3. Nutrition 4. Calories

Lesson 1 A. Quick Review - Answer 1. Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat. Click Next to attempt another question.

Lesson 1 Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q. A number of factors other than family influence people’s food choices. Which of the factors listed below affect food choices? 1. Friends and peers 2. Advertising 3. Convenience and cost 4. All of the above

Lesson 1 A. Quick Review - Answer 4. All of the above A number of factors other than family influence people’s food choices. Some of those factors are friends and peers, advertising, convenience, and cost. Click Next to attempt another question.

Lesson 1 Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q. As long as you eat three square meals a day, what you eat now does not affect your health, either now or as you grow older. True False

Lesson 1 A. Quick Review - Answer False. What you eat now affects your health, both now and as you grow older.

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Lesson 1 What Influences Your Food Choices? Hunger and Appetite Hunger is the physical need for food. When you eat “just to be sociable” or in response to a familiar sensation, you are eating in response to appetite rather than to hunger. When Your Stomach is Empty is Appetite a desire, rather Its walls contract, than a need, to stimulating nerve endings. eat. The nerves signal your brain that your body needs food. When You Eat The walls of the stomach are stretched. The nerve endings are no longer stimulated.

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Lesson 1 Quick Review - Answer A. Correct! The substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy are called nutrients. Click Next to attempt another question.

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Lesson 1 Quick Review - Answer A. Correct! Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat. Click Next to attempt another question.

Lesson 1 Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

Lesson 1 Quick Review - Answer A. Correct! A number of factors other than family influence people’s food choices. Some of those factors are friends and peers, advertising, convenience, and cost. Click Next to attempt another question.

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Quick Review - Answer Lesson 1 A. Correct! What you eat now affects your health, both now and as you grow older. Click Next to attempt another question.

Lesson 1 Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.