nutrition

1. Nutrition and Eating Well

2. Don’t skip breakfast!
• You won’t feel good if you don’t eat breakfast,
and you won’t learn as well in class.
• If you skip a meal, you will eat a lot more in
the next meal, and that may make you fat.

3. How long can someone live without
food and water?
• On average, a person can only live about 3
days without water, and 3 weeks without
food.

4. carbohydrates
• Carbohydrates are the main kind of energy for
you body. Rice, potatoes, bread and sugar are
carbohydrates.

5. protein
Your body
needs protein
to build
muscle and
repair cells.
You don’t
have to eat
meat to get
protein.

6. The Big Three
• Rice, corn and wheat give us 60% of the plant
calories we eat!

7. calories • A man needs about 2500
calories per day.
• A woman needs 2000.

8. Green smoothies
Delicious and nutritious!
blender

9. Too much sugar!
Sugar has no
nutrition.
Don’t drink a lot
of soda!
If you drink
soda, use a lot of
ice.

10. Omega 3 fatty acids
They are very
important for your
body.

11. Our bodies need vitamins and
minerals.

12. The food pyramid

13. Vitamin supplements- Are they a
waste of money?
If you eat healthy food,
you don’t need to buy
vitamins like these.
They may even be bad
for you.

14. malnutrition
Malnutrition is rare in
Thailand, but common in
many places in the world.
Malnutrition kills many
children.

15. Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy
• Children like sweet foods and candy more, but
don’t like bitter foods. Adults like bitter foods
more.

16. Which one should you eat?
Junk food

17. It is important to eat a lot of fiber.
Fiber helps clean out
your digestive system.
It also makes you feel full
more easily, so you don’t
get fat.

18. scurvy
Scurvy happens
when you don’t
get enough
vitamin C.
It happened often
on ships a long
time ago.

19. rickets
Rickets happens when you
don’t get enough vitamin
D and calcium.
The body needs sunlight
to use vitamin D!

20. osteoporosis
Osteoporosis often happens to old people, especially
women if they don’t get enough calcium. They will break
their bones more easily.

21. beriberi
Beriberi is
sickness caused
by not having
enough
thiamine.
It can happen if
you eat nothing
but white rice.

22. Celiac disease
People with celiac
disease cannot eat
gluten.
Gluten is in many,
many foods like
bread.

23. iron Iron is important in
your diet, especially
for women because
they lose blood
during
menstruation.

24. How to read a
food label

25. antioxidants
Antioxidants destroy
free radicals, which are
bad for you. They help
fight cancer.

26. Saturated
fats

27. GMO- Genetically Modified Organism
Science is changing a
lot of foods to make
them easier to grow,
bigger, etc.
A lot of people don’t
like this. Some think it
unsafe.
But it does help feed
more people.

28. Processed food
People eat a lot
of processed
food
nowadays.
Try to eat
natural, fresh
food.

29. Picky eater
A picky eater has
a lot of foods
they don’t like.
Some people
don’t like picky
eaters.

30. Why do we get angry when we are
hungry?
When we are hungry, a hormone called ghrelin is
made. This can make you feel anxious and upset.

31. Green tea prevents cancer
Green tea is very
good for you.
It can help you
lose fat.
You should drink
it without sugar
like Japanese
people do.

32. Caffeine
• Caffeine is a good drug.
• It can improve your mood, make you smarter,
and improve your reaction time.
• Too much caffeine will make it difficult to
sleep.

33. Food for
healthy skin
and hair

34. Eat Smart
• Don’t eat when you’re not hungry and don’t
binge eat.
• Don’t eat too much carbohydrates.

35. Don’t eat koi plaa
• The parasites in Koi plaa can damage your
liver.

36. Questions
• What are some kinds of foods that we should
limit?
• What do antioxidants do?
• How many calories should a person eat every
day?
What is the best way to get our vitamins?
Is soda good for you?
What is a picky eater?

37. Lets plan our next 3 meals
• With a partner, plan your next three meals.
They must be healthy and have both
carbohydrates and protein.
• Use your imagination, and make it delicious.
You can use a dictionary.
• Share your meal plan with the class.