Essential Nutrients
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Eating & Dieting & ???
100
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?
100
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?
100
keep it 1/2 your plate!
What is fruits and veggies?
100
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?
100
_________ children and teens are at high risk for developing serious diseases. Type 2 diabetes and heart disease were considered adult diseases, but they are now being reported in children and teens.
What is overweight?
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.
What is carbohydrates?
200
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?
200
CLEAN/SEPARATE/COOK/CHILL
What are ways to prevent food poisoning?
200
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?
200
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?
300
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 protein?
300
They help your body tap into the energy from food so you can play hard. They are found in chicken, fish, and other protein foods.
What are the B vitamins?
300
Read the food label to find out these three important facts!
What is calories, serving size, and % of daily value (DV)?
300
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?
300
A Family that buys _______ ______ is more likely to eat healthy food.
What is healthy food?
400
These are the fat soluble vitamins.
What is A-D-E-K?
400
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?
400
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 diabetes, asthma, heart disease, and some forms of cancer.
What is eating and exercise?
400
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?
400
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. Be aware that some appetizers are larger than others and can have as many calories as an entree. Take at least half of your meal home?
500
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 is minerals?
500
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 is fats?
500
Teens should be __________ _________for 60 minutes or more on most, preferably all days of the week.
What is physically active?
500
Key for blood clotting it can be found in liver, milk, green leafy vegetables, cabbage, and broccoli.
What is Vitamin K?
500
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?
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