Nutrition Calorie intake and calorie output Starter Activity

Nutrition – Calorie intake and calorie output

Starter Activity – 5 mins • Write a paragraph explaining what you can remember about a vegan diet. . • Explain what it means to be vegan, and what foods vegan’s can and can’t eat.

Calorie intake and calorie output • Copy these sentences – • The average adult male needs to take in around 2500 calories a day to maintain weight. • The average female needs to take in around 2000 calories a day to maintain weight.

Calorie intake/output • Task one (10 mins ) – • Make a thought shower identifying as many reasons as you can which would change the amount of calories a person needs to take in to maintain weight. . . • One thing which impacts how many calories a person needs to eat to maintain weight is how active they are. Eg – if a person has a job in which they walk 15, 000 steps a day they will need to have more calories.

Calorie intake/output • Task two (5 mins) – • a) Explain what happens if a person eats too many calories over a set period of time. • b) Explain what happens if a person eats too few calories over a set period of time.

20 -25 mins – Michael Phelps is one of the greatest swimmers of all time, when training he used to go through periods where he ate 12, 000 calories a day. Read the links below. . Michael Phelps' 12, 000 Calorie Diet | Aspire Channel Swim Michael Phelps' diet for the Rio Olympics - Business Insider 1) 2) 3) 4) Make a list of all the foods Michael Phelps used to eat in a day. Explain why he needed to eat as many calories as he did. What motivated him to do it? What would happen to an average person if they ate 12, 000 calories a day over a long period of time. Answer in as much detail as possible, what health issues could they face?

• You have been appointed head dietician of a premier league football team. • Design a daily diet for one player. Thinking about the work done on calories try to think how many calories they will need to be able to train and play.

• What is meant by the term calorie deficit and calorie surplus? • Write a short paragraph for both.