Making Healthy Making Healthy Food ChoicesFood Choices

Chapter 9Chapter 9

Why do you Eat?Why do you Eat?

BoredomBoredom StressedStressed Out with FriendsOut with Friends Watching TVWatching TV Sad or DepressedSad or Depressed

REAL Reason: to meet your nutritional REAL Reason: to meet your nutritional needs, to satisfy your appetite, and to needs, to satisfy your appetite, and to supply your body with energysupply your body with energy

Hunger – feeling of Hunger – feeling of discomfort caused discomfort caused by your body’s by your body’s need for nutrientsneed for nutrients

Appetite – desire Appetite – desire for food based on for food based on emotions and other emotions and other factors (appetite is factors (appetite is learned)learned)

Basal Metabolic Rate: Basal Metabolic Rate: the rate at which you the rate at which you use energy when your use energy when your body is at rest. (BMR)body is at rest. (BMR)

Daily Values: Daily Values: recommendations that recommendations that specify the amounts of specify the amounts of certain nutrients that certain nutrients that the average person the average person should obtain each dayshould obtain each day

Safely Managing Your Safely Managing Your WeightWeight

Determined by various factors:Determined by various factors: HeredityHeredity Level of activityLevel of activity Body compositionBody composition

Body Mass Index (BMI) – ratio of your weight to your height

Overweight vs. Obesity

Type 2 Diabetes

Nutrition for Individual Nutrition for Individual NeedsNeeds

DiabeticsDiabetics VegetariansVegetarians Food AllergyFood Allergy Food IntoleranceFood Intolerance AthletesAthletes