Lecture about food

1. Food - Potion or poison?
Filomena Horta Correia
Maria Palma Mateus
Escola E B 2,3 José Carlos Maia
Olhão, 5th April 2019
"PROMOTING HEALTHY EATING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR HEALTHIER NATIONS;
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR SCHOOL "

2. Food
• Latin- alimentu
• everything that serves to feed
• substance used in nutrition
• food; sustenance
• Any substance or mixture of substances, in the solid, liquid, pasty
or any other suitable form, intended to provide the human
organism with the normal constituents essential to its formation,
maintenance and development.
alimento in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2018. [consult. 2018-04-28 07:31:03]. Disponível na
Internet: https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa/alimento

3. Potion
• latin potiōne
• liquid usually composed of water, syrup and substances, which is
intended to be administered orally; Medicinal product or a liquid
liquid drug consisting of one or more drugs mixed in an excipient
(distilled water, alcohol, wine, liquor, etc.) to be administered
orally to spoons.
• any drink
• figured magic potion - miracle remedy
poção in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2018. [consult. 2018-04-28 07:32:53]. Disponível na
Internet: https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa/poção

4. Poison
• latin venenum «drinking, drug, toxic»
• Generic name given to any substance that, when ingested or
introduced into the body, damages vital functions or health. There
are many substances (organic, inorganic or synthetic) that can be
included in the group of poisons.
• Synonym
• Toxic substance
veneno in Dicionário infopédia de Termos Médicos [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2018. [consult. 2018-04-28 07:36:08]. Disponível na
Internet: https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/termos-medicos/veneno

5. Hipócrates
• “Let food be your medicine”
• manual.- diet
• Hippocrates, food had to change according the clima and the seasons. He
believed it influence the moods. In winter, a period in which the cold and the
humidity predominate, it would be preferable to consume meats with sauce,
cooked with hot spices; in the spring, when the heat and humidity prevail, I
advised to gradually move from the pot food to eat more green vegetables; in
summer, when the heat prevails, it would be time to eat lighter foods like
grilled meats and fish, preferring cold and moist foods like melon, plums or
cherries; in autumn, a period when the cold begins, it would be necessary to
eat appetizing and mildly acidic foods to eject melancholy, as well as reduce
the consumption of wine and fruit.

6. Food? Potion or Poison?

7. Lack vs Overeating
• Certain type of diets
• Life styles
• Habits
• Fashions
• Professions
• Physical activity

8. Genetic Factors Life Styles
Disease
Health
Environmental Factors
Risk Factors
•Sedentary lifestyle
•Smoking
•Inadequate feeding
50%

9. Super Size Me: 30 Dias de Fast Food
2004

10. Eating disorders
According to the WHO (World Health Organization), a disorder or
eating disorder is defined as any change in eating behavior that can
cause harm to an individual's health. These changes may be due to
metabolic or psychological factors.

11. Diseases
• Avitaminoses- scurvy,
beriberi, rickets, pellagra
xerophthalmia
• Anemias
• anorexia
• Bulimia
• Malabsorption Sindrome
• Cancer (breast, colon)
• Depression
• Anxiety and stress
• Humor and Self Esteem
• Obesity
• Hypertension
• Arteriosclerosis
• Diabetes
• Gout
• Dyslipidemias,
cholesterolemia
• Arthroses
• Osteoporosis

12. How can we change?
Eating better
Healthy life stiles
Physical Activity

13. Physical Activity
Performance Fitness Improvement of Health /
Prevention of diseases

17. Health and Physical activity
• Improves attention and concentration levels
• Increases short and long term memory
• Improves spatio-temporal organization
• Reduces stress and anxiety
• Improves self-esteem and self-concept
• Better interpersonal relationships
• Decreases absenteeism
• Reduces indiscipline and school violence
• Decrease school dropout
• Promotes inclusiveness
• Increases school success globally

18. Benefits
• PHYSIOLOGICAL BENEFITS:
•- LOW BLOOD PRESSURE
•- POSITIVELY REGULATES THE PROFILE OF CHOLESTEROL
•- INCREASES MUSCLE MASS AND DECREES FAT MASS
•- IMPROVE BONE HEALTH AND PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS
•- IMPROVE GLYCEMIC CONTROL
• PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS:
•- IMPROVE SELF-IMAGE
•- IMPROVE SELF-ESTIMATE
•SOCIOLOGICAL BENEFITS:
•- FAVOR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
•- STRENGTHENS GROUP COHESION

19. •  sequels appearance
•  needs of hospitalization
• Lower use of drugs
•  costs health services
• Companies with physical activity programs have benefits
•  absenteeism
•  workers productivity
Results of health and Physical activity

20. Benefits
Control of
Body weight
Improvement
Lipids
Profile
Decreases
Blood Pressure
Improvement
Insulin
Resistance
Improvement
Muscular Strength
Increases
Bone
Density
Improvement
Physics
Resistance
Improvement
Mobility (joints)
Benefits
Physics
Activity

21. Benefits
Reduce pressure
Reduce
Social
Isolation
Increases
Self esteem
Relieves
Stress
Improvement
Self-
Image
Increases
Well Being
Keeps
Autonomy
Benefits
Physics
Activity

22. Improves performance
academic and vocational
Reduce behavior
disorders
Increases class
attendance
Improvement
relationship
with the parents
Decrease
Delinquency, bulling
Decrease usage
of substances
increases abstinence
Person
responsibilitySchool Benefits

23. Strategies
Healthy
Life styles
With everybody
Schools
Health Education
Share experiences
Promoting integration
Citizens
Work

24. Pyramid Physic Activity
Sitting time watching
TV , computer, gaming
Leisure activities
Light Exercises
Aerobic exercises
Dance and Sports
Walking daily life
Reduce
2–3 times a week
3-5 times a week
Everyday

25. Questões?

26. Food - Potion or poison?
Filomena Horta Correia
Maria Palma Mateus
Escola E B 2,3 José Carlos Maia
Olhão 4 de Abril de 2019
"PROMOTING HEALTHY EATING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR HEALTHIER NATIONS;
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR SCHOOL "