nutrition and health
Part 1: Understand how diet is linked to health
1. Define what is meant by the term ‘healthy diet’.
A healthy diet is something that covers all of your body’s needs, and ensures that your body gets all the nutrients that it requires to stay healthy in day to day life.
The things that you require will vary depending on a number of different factors including age, gender and activity levels.
2. Describe why the healthy diets of adults and children may be different. Provide at least three examples of these differences.
A healthy adult diet provides everything that the body needs to stay fit and healthy
A healthy children’s diet is a diet that provides everything that they need to stay fit and healthy as well as grow properly.
Healthy diets of children is to encourage healthy eating behaviour and to improve their eating habits so that they can have a healthy diet throughout their life
Examples of children diets: children need few calories than adults as their bodies are not as big
Salt should not be added to children’s meal
Processed sugar never be added to children’s food
Examples adult’s diets; adults need more calories than children
Adults can eat some fried food
Adults can eat plenty of fibre rich foods
3. Give an outline of at least three lifestyle diseases associated with unhealthy diets.
a) Unhealthy diet is associated with diabetes: there are two types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2.
In type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system attacks and destroys the cells that produce insulin. As no insulin is produced, your glucose levels increase, which can seriously damage the body's organs.
• Type 2 diabetes is where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body's cells do not react to insulin. This is known as insulin resistance.
• If you are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, you may be able to control your symptoms simply by eating a healthy diet and monitoring your blood glucose level.
• Type 2 diabetes is
1. Define what is meant by the term ‘healthy diet’.
A healthy diet is something that covers all of your body’s needs, and ensures that your body gets all the nutrients that it requires to stay healthy in day to day life.
The things that you require will vary depending on a number of different factors including age, gender and activity levels.
2. Describe why the healthy diets of adults and children may be different. Provide at least three examples of these differences.
A healthy adult diet provides everything that the body needs to stay fit and healthy
A healthy children’s diet is a diet that provides everything that they need to stay fit and healthy as well as grow properly.
Healthy diets of children is to encourage healthy eating behaviour and to improve their eating habits so that they can have a healthy diet throughout their life
Examples of children diets: children need few calories than adults as their bodies are not as big
Salt should not be added to children’s meal
Processed sugar never be added to children’s food
Examples adult’s diets; adults need more calories than children
Adults can eat some fried food
Adults can eat plenty of fibre rich foods
3. Give an outline of at least three lifestyle diseases associated with unhealthy diets.
a) Unhealthy diet is associated with diabetes: there are two types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2.
In type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system attacks and destroys the cells that produce insulin. As no insulin is produced, your glucose levels increase, which can seriously damage the body's organs.
• Type 2 diabetes is where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body's cells do not react to insulin. This is known as insulin resistance.
• If you are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, you may be able to control your symptoms simply by eating a healthy diet and monitoring your blood glucose level.
• Type 2 diabetes is