NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE.

WHAT IS HEALTHY EATING?

• Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods that give you the nutrients you need to maintain your health, feel good, and have energy.
• While researchers are still studying the effects of eating unhealthy food on breast cancer and recurrence risk, we do know that being overweight is a risk factor for both first-time and recurrent breast cancer.

1.1 CONCEPTS:

• Food
• Diet
• Meals and snacks
• Nutrients

FOOD:

• Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.
• Its can be taken by: Mouth,tube.
• Example:Chips,Salad,Fruit, Vegetable,Sweet.

DIET:

• food and drink regularly provided or consumed or a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one's weight
• Example: my diet for all of the day is I don't eat breakfast but some time I drink tea and some times if I feel hungry I eat bread with chess sometimes with egg and mango juice,and until the lunch I eat snacks like chips, cookies.

MEALS AND SNACKS:

• Meals:Any of the regular occasions in a day when a reasonably large amount of food is eaten.
• Snack:a small amount of food eaten between meals
• Example:Breakfast:bread and cheese and milk. In lunch: rise with chicken.In Dinner: I eat sometimes spaghetti.And Snacks between the meals: Fruit and Chips.

NUTRIENTS:

• A substance that provides nourishment essential for the maintenance of life and for growth.
• Example:Protein:milk,eggs,cheese.
• Carbohydrates:bread,potatoes.
• Vitamins: milk,fish,cheese.
• Minerals: vegetables,fruits.

1.2 NUTRITIONAL HEALTH.

• It's divided into 5 types:
• 1. Malnutrition
• 2.Undernutrition
• 3.Deficiency
• 4.Overweight
• 5.Obesity

MALNUTRITION :

• the unhealthy condition that results from not eating enough food or not eating enough healthy food : poor nutrition. And it's divided into two types: 1.Over nutrition. 2. Under nutrition.

OVER NUTRITION:

• Overnutrition can develop into obesity, which increases the risk of serious health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer, and type-2 diabetes.
• The World Health Organization describes the current problem: In the poorest countries, even though infectious diseases and undernutrition dominate their current disease burden, the major risk factors for chronic diseases are spreading.

UNDER NUTRITION:

• 1.nutritional deficiency resulting from lack of food or from the inability of the body to convert or absorb it
• Example: As an example for the under nutrition the poor people who have nothing to eat so they have a sever hunger.

DEFICIENCY:

• Nutritional deficiencies, known as malnutrition, are the result of your body not getting enough of the nutrients it needs.
• Children are more at risk for serious complications due to nutritional deficiencies than adults.
• You can prevent nutritional deficiencies by making sure you get enough nutrients from your diet. You should talk to your doctor and dietitian to help make any decisions on dietary changes and before taking any nutritional supplements.

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