Essential Nutrients
Your body uses it to cool down, it helps your body move nutrients to the places they need to go. It is found in most foods, especially fruits and vegetables. Drinking this instead of a sweet beverage, like soda, is a healthy way to cool off and satisfy your thirst. It keeps you hydrated. It stops dehydration.
What is water?
These are foods you can get vitamin A from. (state 3)
What is dark-green, red, and orange fruits and vegetables, such as cantaloupe, carrots, sweet potato, tomatoes, spinach, and romaine lettuce?
This should fill 1/2 your plate!
What is fruits and veggies?
Helps you have healthy blood. Transports oxygen to the lung and the rest of the body and it carries carbon dioxide away from the lungs. Can be found in red meat, poultry (turkey, chicken), fish, shellfish, liver, dried fruits, beans, and peas, whole grain or enriched breads and cereals, dark green and leafy vegetables.
What is iron?
Young children and teens are at high risk for developing serious _________. Type 2 diabetes and heart disease were considered adult ________, but they are now being reported in children and teens.
What is diseases?
200 It gives you energy to run, jump, and even blink your eyes. It is important in maintaining your heartbeat, processing your food through digestion, growing new cells, thinking, and even sleeping. The complex ones are the better ones to consume.
What is carbohydrates?
It helps the body have strong bones and teeth. It can be found in most milk, including soy milk, breakfast cereals, and yogurt. Some fish (tuna, salmon) have it too. Sunlight also gives it to you.
What is vitamin D?
CLEAN/SEPARATE/COOK/CHILL
What are key ways to prevent food poisoning?
It can be found in milk, yogurt, cheese, soy milk, salmon, and in some dark green leafy vegetables. It helps build strong teeth and bones.
What is calcium?
Many teens turn to _______ methods to lose weight, including eating very little, cutting out whole groups of foods (like grain products), skipping meals, and fasting. These methods can leave out important foods you need to grow. Other weight-loss tactics such as smoking, self-induced vomiting, or using diet pills or laxatives can lead to health problems.
What is unhealthy dieting?
It is used by the body to build muscle, skin, and bone. It is necessary for the building and repair of body tissues. It produces enzymes, hormones, and other substances the body uses. It makes the muscles contract. It helps prevent you from becoming easily fatigued by producing stamina and energy.
What is a protein?
This vitamin helps your body tap into the energy from food so you can play hard. They are found in chicken, fish, and other protein foods. Helps turn glucose into energy, as well as helps our nervous system function optimally. Produces energy in the body and assists with keeping vision and skin healthy. Converts carbohydrates into energy.
What are the B vitamins?
Read the food label to find out these important facts!
What are calories, serving size, % of daily value (DV), fats, & nutrients?
It keeps your muscles and nervous system working right. It helps the contraction of muscles, maintenance of fluid balance, transmission of nerve impulses, regular heart rhythm, and cell metabolism. It can be found in oranges, bananas, dried fruits (dried apricots), cantaloupes, honeydew melon, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, white beans, kidney beans, tomato sauce, and spinach, milk, yogurt, soy, cereals, and meat.
What is potassium?
A Family that buys _______ ______ is more likely to eat healthy food.
What is healthy food?
These are the fat soluble vitamins.
What is A D E K?
It helps protect your eyes and skin. It plays an important role in helping you see at night. It also helps you fight off infections.
What is vitamin A?
Healthy _________ and regular ________ may help you feel energized, learn better, and stay alert in class. These healthy habits may also lower your risk for diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease (high blood pressure, stroke, high cholesterol, arteriosclerosis) , and some forms of cancer.
What is eating and exercise?
It helps your body heal cuts and scratches. It also helps keep your teeth and gums healthy. It prevents scurvy, release of stress hormones, absorption of iron, antioxidant, and resistance to infection. it can be found in all citrus fruits (oranges, grapefruits), kiwi fruit, strawberries, broccoli, melons, tomatoes, potatoes, and green peppers (bell peppers).
What is Vitamin C?
Ways to control portion sizes when eating out. (state 3)
What is share your meal, order a half-portion, or order an appetizer as a main meal. Take at least half of your meal home?
Our bodies can’t make them we get them from food. There are two classifications of these. The major ones and the minor ones.
What are minerals?
It helps the body absorb certain vitamins and promotes healthy skin. The body also uses it for energy. It carries certain vitamins through the body and develops certain hormones. It helps cushion and support organs when it is stored in the body.
What are fats?
Teens should be __________ _________for 60 minutes or more on most, preferably all days of the week.
What is physically active?
Key for blood clotting it can be found in liver, milk, green leafy vegetables, cabbage, and broccoli.
What is Vitamin K?
Ways to control portion sizes at home. (state 3)
What is take one serving out of a package (read the Nutrition Facts to find out how big a serving is) and eat it off a plate instead of eating straight out of a box or bag. Avoid eating in front of the TV or while you are busy with other activities. It is easy to lose track of how much you are eating if you eat while doing other things. Eat slowly so your brain can get the message that your stomach is full. Do not skip meals. Skipping meals may lead you to eat more high-calorie, high-fat foods at your next meal or snack. Eat breakfast every day?