...Phoenix Material Health and Nutrition Worksheet Use Ch. 1, 2, & 3 of Visualizing Nutrition, supplemental course materials, the University Library, the Internet, or other resources to answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be 75 to 100 words. |What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? | |Nutrition is the process of getting food that we need to grow and keep healthy. Nutrition is essential to our lives because it | |helps us figure out which foods will keep us healthy and how much of what foods will do that. It helps us find the right balance.| |There are over 40 essential nutrients humans need to stay healthy, without nutrition we wouldn’t know what those are or how to | |get them to us. | |What is the connection between nutrition and health? | |The connection between nutrition and health is a simple one. If you have good and balanced nutrition, you will have good and | |balanced health. Proper nutrition will provide your body with just the right amount of nutrients it needs to function. Good | |nutrition gives you energy, keeps you healthy, even when you inevitably get sick, you’ll recover quicker. Bad nutrition will make| |you lethargic, which...
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...University of Phoenix Material Nutrition and Health Worksheet Use Ch. 1 of Contemporary Nutrition, Ch. 2 of Visualizing Nutrition, supplemental course materials, the University Library, the Internet, or other resources to answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be 75 to 100 words. |What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? | |Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and disease, nutrition is important to our daily lives because being able to | |determine what foods are good or bad for us will enable us to live longer healthier lives. By knowing how different types of food| |reacts with our body and what nutrients we get from each item we can control our food intake to better our lives. | |What is the connection between nutrition and health? | |By studying nutrition, we are able to determine what types of foods provided what essential nutrients. Some of these nutrients | |are chemicals that our bodies need in order to live healthy life styles, but they are also ones that our bodies do not create or | |create very little of. From there we can determine what types or foods we need to add to our diets to make up for the lacking of | |or loss of nutrients. ...
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...“What If It’s All Been a Big, Fat Lie,” by Gary Taubes In the first paragraph of the essay, Taubes inserts the statement “Any theory that tries to account for obesity in America, has to account for that,” referring to the sharp rise in obesity in the 1980’s and setting up his thesis that carbohydrates, not fats cause obesity. What does this mean? Taubes makes it seem plausible that fat causes obesity and offers reasonable doubt that carbohydrates may be the culprit, instead. William Dietz who runs the division of nutrition and physical activity at the Center of disease control said “As far as exercise and physical activity go, there are no reliable data before the mid-80's.” In 1990’s study by Center of Disease Control shows "exercise activity remains unchanged from 70’s to 80’s.” Why was the data not reliable? People in the 70’s and 80’s were not exposed to fast food and junk food which lead them to eat healthy. We watch television and most of the time we see fast food commercial. Since we see these fast food commercials, we crave for it and we drive ourselves to the drive thru and buys are self meals. However, we tend to eat so much unhealthy food, most us tend not work out which leads us to have health problems. What foods have good or bad cholesterol in them? Foods high in good fats include vegetable oils (such as olive, canola, sunflower, soy, and corn), nuts, seeds, and fish. Foods high in bad fats include red meat, butter, cheese, and ice cream, as well as processed...
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...the number of people globally who were malnourished stood at 923 million in 2007, an increase of over 80 million since the 1990-92 base period. In 2006, more than 36 million people died of hunger or diseases due to deficiencies in micronutrients; accounted for 58% of the total mortality in the same year. Under nutrition contributes to almost 35% of the estimated 7.6 million deaths under-5 deaths; consequently affecting the future health and socioeconomic development and productive potential of the society. The malnourished are unable to live a normal life, are less likely to fulfill their potential as human beings and cannot contribute fully to the development of their own countries. Nutrition is the provision of adequate energy and nutrients (in terms of amount and mix and timelines) to the cells for them to perform their physiological function of (growth, reproduction, defence, repair e.t.c). The World Health Organization defines malnutrition as "the cellular imbalance between supply of nutrients & energy and the body's demand for them to ensure growth, maintenance, and specific functions”. Malnutrition comprises both; Under nutrition and Over nutrition The World Health Organization (WHO) says that malnutrition is by far the largest contributor to child mortality globally, currently present in 45 percent of all cases. Underweight births and inter-uterine growth restrictions are responsible for about 2.2 million child deaths annually in the world. Deficiencies in...
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...PERSONAL HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE According to the World Health Organization nutrition is the intake of food considered in relation to the body's dietary needs. However, nutrition does not just stop at the foods that someone eats. To be considered in good health, a balanced diet must be combined with regular physical activities to help in the aid of being considered in good health. A person's nutrition has an effect on how the person can look, feel, think and even act. As nutrition decreases the risks of disease and illness become greater. Some of the main problems associated with poor nutrition are obesity/underweight, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and reduced immunity to diseases. In many cases poor nutrition can be prevented, it is just a matter of what the person will do for themselves. One of the more common effects of poor nutrition and lack of physical activities is found in Type 2 Diabetes. Type 2 Diabetes is when the body can no longer use its insulin effectively, or create enough of it. This lack of insulin can have many different effects on the body. The symptoms of it include excessive excretion of urine, thirst, constant hunger, vision changes and fatigue. These symptoms are usually not found as early as they are in type 1, and are usually found after complications for diabetes are occurring. Another major result of poor nutrition and poor activity habits is in obesity. Obesity is one of the largest factors of health problems affecting people that can...
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...PERSONAL HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE According to the World Health Organization nutrition is the intake of food considered in relation to the body's dietary needs. However, nutrition does not just stop at the foods that someone eats. To be considered in good health, a balanced diet must be combined with regular physical activities to help in the aid of being considered in good health. A person's nutrition has an effect on how the person can look, feel, think and even act. As nutrition decreases the risks of disease and illness become greater. Some of the main problems associated with poor nutrition are obesity/underweight, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and reduced immunity to diseases. In many cases poor nutrition can be prevented, it is just a matter of what the person will do for themselves. One of the more common effects of poor nutrition and lack of physical activities is found in Type 2 Diabetes. Type 2 Diabetes is when the body can no longer use its insulin effectively, or create enough of it. This lack of insulin can have many different effects on the body. The symptoms of it include excessive excretion of urine, thirst, constant hunger, vision changes and fatigue. These symptoms are usually not found as early as they are in type 1, and are usually found after complications for diabetes are occurring. Another major result of poor nutrition and poor activity habits is in obesity. Obesity is one of the largest factors of health problems affecting people that can...
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...Material Nutrition and Health Worksheet Use Ch. 1 of Contemporary Nutrition, Ch. 2 of Visualizing Nutrition, supplemental course materials, the University Library, the Internet, or other resources to answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be 75 to 100 words. |What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? | |Nutrition is the thing taken in by the body when eating food. Nutrition is essential to our daily lives because it affects our | |body, and mind. A good nutritional diet usually means good healthily life, it also aids in preventing diseases. 6 categories, | |carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, water, protein, and fats. These nutrients are necessary for good health and for the body | |to properly function. These are the main categories that can be broken down to smaller subcategories, nevertheless these are | |essential to our daily lives. | | | |What is the connection between nutrition and health? | |Although there is more to good health then nutrition, it is one of the main factors in a healthy individual. Eating a good | |nutritional...
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...research question, keep in mind that you will need to research sources to support your topic. Do not pick a one-sided question that will limit your research. Instead, develop a research question that lends itself to further exploration and debate—a question you genuinely want to know the answer to. Try to pick a research question that is neither too broad (covering too much) or too narrow (covering too little). It should be broad enough to be discussed in a short research paper. Part 1: Complete the Research Plan |What is your general topic or area of interest? |Healthy eating | | | | | | | |What is it about your general topic of interest that interests |Finding different foods that are healthy for you so you can eat and stay | |you? |healthy an lean at the same time. | |...
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...Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet Week Two Danielle Church SCI/163 October 2, 2013 Professor Sean Gary Physical Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet Week Two Part 1: Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table Components of Physical Fitness | Description | How to Incorporate in Your Life | Benefit(s) | Cardio respiratory Fitness | Being able to exercise at a moderate to high intensity for a long period of time. | Walk two miles at a brisk pace every day. | Reduced the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol. | Muscular Strength | Maximum force able to exert by single contraction of a muscle or muscle group. | Start out with crunches, lunges, and squats. | The ability to carry out tasks easier like yard work. | Muscular Endurance | Ability to perform high-intensity muscle contractions repeatedly without fatiguing. | Doing push-ups to build up muscular endurance. | Increased metabolism, Reduced fatigue, fewer injuries, and fewer back problems. | Flexibility | Ability to move joints freely through their full range of motion. | Start with stretching or yoga to help with flexibility. | Being able to keep joints flexible and ability to reach or move. | Body Composition | The amount and relative proportions and distribution of fat mass and fat-free mass in the body. | By exercising, correctly eating, and managing time. | Living longer and living a healthy life. | Part 2: Critique a Meal 1. What is the name...
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...diets • Other nutrition topic approved by your instructor Research your topic using 2 nutrition articles that discuss your topic, but provide opposing viewpoints. Use the Internet, the University Library, or the search links provided in the Week 2 Electronic Reserve Readings to locate the articles. Write 50- to 200-word responses to each of the following questions based your findings. Use your own words and provide examples to support your answers. 1. What topic did you choose? Discuss the position of each of the two articles you selected. The topic I chose was eggs. Incredible edible egg site gives you 12 facts of why eggs are nutritional and they are pro eggs and also gives you the myths of eggs. Health.Harvard.edu gives you the nutritional facts as well and then they give you the down side of eggs, but also saying that eggs are not as bad as people say they are for reason of the cholesterol the eggs possess. 2. What health claims are stated in the articles, such as drinking coffee every day will lower one’s risk for cancer? According to http://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/egg-nutrition, eggs are a good source of nutrients. One egg contains 6 grams of protein and some healthful unsaturated fats. Eggs are also a good source of choline, which has been linked with preserving memory, and lutein and zeaxanthin, which may protect against vision loss. According to http://www.incredibleegg.org/health-and-nutrition/heres-to-your-health...
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...Anthropology. Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Kittler, Pamela G., and Sucher, Kathryn P. (1998). Food and Culture in America: A Nutrition Handbook, 2nd edition. Belmont, CA: West/Wadsworth. Klimis-Zacas, Dorothy J., ed. (2001). Annual Editions: Nutrition 01/02. Guilford, CT: McGraw Hill/Dushkin. Lowenberg, Miriam Elizabeth; Todhunter, Elizabeth Neige; Wilson, E. D.; Savage, J. R.; and Lubawski, J. L. (1979). Food and People. New York: Wiley. Schlosser, Eric (2001). Fast Food Nation: The Darker Side of the All American Meal. New York: Houghton Mifflin. The overall pattern of food that a person eats is more important to a healthy diet than focusing on single foods or individual nutrients, according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in its newly updated position paper "Total Diet Approach to Healthy Eating." According to the position paper: "In contrast to the total diet approach, classification of specific foods as 'good' or 'bad' is overly simplistic and may foster unhealthy eating behaviors." The Academy's position paper stresses that moderation, portion size and exercise are the key concepts for balancing food and beverage intakes. The position paper has been published in the February Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and can be found on the Academy's website. It states: It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that the total diet or overall pattern of food eaten is the most important focus of healthy eating. All foods can...
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...Associate Level Material Physical Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet In order to obtain optimal health, it is critical to be physically fit and eat a healthy and balanced diet. Becoming knowledgeable about what it means to be physically fit and learning how to evaluate the nutritional value of what you eat may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness. In this three-part worksheet, you identify the five components of health related fitness, critique a recipe for nutritional value, and respond to two short answer questions about nutrition. Completing this assignment is a step towards gaining the knowledge needed to better manage your physical fitness and nutrition. Part 1: Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table Complete the table below. The first row has been filled in for you as an example. Components of Physical Fitness Description How to Incorporate in Your Life Benefit(s) Cardiorespiratory Fitness Being able to exercise at a moderate to high intensity for a long period of time Walk 2 miles at a brisk pace every day. Reduced the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol. Muscular Strength The maximum amount of force that a muscle can exert against some form of resistance in a single effort. Lift weights at least 3x a week starting with a low weight and slow pace. Increase bone density, reduce injuries, improved quality of life, decreases stress on joints thus relieving pain Muscular Endurance ...
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...is now a large and increasing body of evidence to indicate that nutrition and health affect human’s cognitive, motor, and behavioral development, both pre- and postnatal. The impact of a biological insult depends on the stage of a child’s development, as well as the severity and duration of the insult. However, because nutritional deficiencies and infections frequently occur together, the problems resulting from any one insult may be exacerbated by the presence of another, and the effects can be cumulative. The study of nutrients in food, how the body uses nutrients, and the relationship between diet, health and disease. Major food manufacturers employ nutritionists and food scientists. Nutritionists may also work in journalism, education and research. Many nutritionists work in the field of food science and technology. There is a lot of overlap between what nutritionists and dietitians do and studied. Some nutritionists work in health care, some dietitians work in the food industry, but a higher percentage of nutritionists work in the food industry and food science and technology, and a higher percentage of dietitians work in health care. One could very loosely generalize and say that a nutritionist focuses firstly on a food, and then looks at its effects on people, while a dietician looks at the human, and then how that human's health is influenced by food. If I discovered a new fruit and wanted to find out what it consisted of I would go to a nutritionist. If I found out I had...
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...In this article,” Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating” by Mary Maxfield. There are a few things in order to lose weight, go on a diet, being healthy and also eating healthy. We continue to believe what is the right way or by being healthy in the way we view foods that involves eating less and more differently as we should by eating the right way. There are a few key things to understand in order to fulfill our basic needs such as, being able to differentiate between the good and bad cravings our body has, knowing what nutrition facts are showing that certain foods put into our bodies, and most importantly how to read and comprehend nutrition facts and how to live a healthy lifestyle. And although nutrition may seem of concern...
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...Incorporating Fats and Carbohydrates Into a Healthy Diet Trent Harrington COM/155 University Composition and Communication 1 August 10, 2013 Tracy White Incorporating Fats and Carbohydrates Into a Healthy Diet Did you know that a diet with high-fat and low-carbs can put you at risk for heart arrhythmias and kidney problems because of electrolytes and lack of potassium? Fad diets often take bodies on a nutritional rollercoaster because they limit the kind of food a person is allowed to eat. Fats and carbohydrates are especially at risk of being called-out as bad, but the facts are that they contain many things a body needs. A body needs a healthy balance between all foods to function the best it can. This maintenance in our bodies will help fight off diseases that we have become accustomed to knowing about for far too long. When eaten in the correct amounts both carbohydrates and fats give human bodies energy and nutrients that will help maintain a healthy diet. Carbohydrates and fats give energy, nutrients, and have specific functions that many diets leave neglected because people hear how they can lead someone to have diseases and weight gain. Carbohydrates have two main functions in a healthy diet. First, they give a person’s body an immediate energy source that can help with brain, nervous system, and muscle function. Second, another form of carbohydrate is called fiber, a non-digestible material. Fiber is essential to have a healthy digestive...
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