Unit three: Use food and nutrition information to plan a healthy diet Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document‚ either onto your computer or a disk • Then work through your Assessment‚ remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished‚ print out a copy to keep for reference • Then‚ go to www.vision2learnforschools.com and send your completed Assessment to your teacher via your My Study area
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Food and Nutrition Assignment Submitted by: Azka Khan Submitted to: Topic: Types of Food Types of Food Food: Food is any substance normally eaten or drunk by living things. The term food also includes liquid drinks. Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals‚ and is usually of animal or plant origin. There are 4 (four) basic food energy sources: fats‚ proteins‚ carbohydrates and alcohol. Historical development Humans are omnivorous
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My report is on what it takes to become physically fit. "Physical fitness is the ability of the human body to function with vigor and alertness‚ without undue fatigue‚ and with ample energy to engage in leisure activities‚ and to meet physical stresses". Muscular strength and endurance‚ cardiorespiratory integrity‚ and general alertness are the overt signs of physical fitness. Physical fitness is usually measured in relation to functional expectations-that is‚ typically‚ by periodic tests measuring
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Human Nutrition I | | INTRODUCTION | Human Nutrition‚ study of how food affects the health and survival of the human body. Human beings require food to grow‚ reproduce‚ and maintain good health. Without food‚ our bodies could not stay warm‚ build or repair tissue‚ or maintain a heartbeat. Eating the right foods can help us avoid certain diseases or recover faster when illness occurs. These and other important functions are fueled by chemical substances in our food called nutrients. Nutrients
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Reflections on Nutrition Overall I have enjoyed every aspect of this class. However‚ I must say that I enjoyed the healthy eating plan assignment. This assignment gave me an overview of my eating habits as a whole. Having to put everything on paper enabled me to acknowledge a change was needed and where the change was needed. Prior to composing a healthy eating plan‚ I was never equipped with the knowledge to know there were nutrients missing from my daily diet. This particular assignment
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the result of an imbalance between the heat produced and the heat eliminated in the body. It is not a disease in itself but an indication of some disease. Infections and malnutrition are the main causes of fever. FACTORS AFFECTING NUTRITION Factors affecting nutrition during fever are as follows: *Increase in temperature during fever increases the rate of metabolism in the body. * Energy is stored as glycogen in the body. Amount of glycogen is gradually depleted in fever. *Loss of tissues in
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Associate Level Material Nutrition Worksheet In order to obtain optimal health‚ it is critical to eat a healthy and balanced diet. Becoming knowledgeable about how to evaluate the nutritional value of what you eat may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness. In this two-part worksheet‚ you 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
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Organisms that aren’t food producers must be food consumers. This method of nutrition is described as heterotrophic (eating others). Consumers include: predators‚ parasites‚ scavengers‚ decomposers and some green plants (e.g. sundews‚ Venus flytrap‚ pitcher plants). The food sources may be all or any of: plants‚ animals‚ fungi or bacteria; either living or dead. The advantages of the heterotrophic method of nutrition are: the food usually contains all the appropriate chemicals needed by the
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The poem "Cross" by P.K.Page describes the sorrow of witnessing a stony couple who can barely remember why they are angry with each other after a week-long battle. They won’t discuss it or resolve it because "neither/can come to that undemanded act of love-/kiss the sleeping princess or sleep with the frog--/and break the spell which holds them each from the other." So the couple ends up like "two on a desert island‚ back to back‚" an emotional chasm dividing them which neither is willing to bridge
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perform better and get into less behavioral problems at school” (Haupt‚ 2011). Foods that have a high fat and sugar content cause children to become lethargic‚ cranky‚ and moody. This‚ in turn‚ hinders absorption of new materials and concepts. Poor nutrition hinders learning on a whole. “More that 60 percent of adults in the United States are overweight or obese‚ and there are twice as many overweight children and three times as many overweight teens as there were two decades ago” (Trends Effects Solutions
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