During his first few years of practice, Dr. Jonathan Spages did cultural research in Thailand and started with his first patients in NYC who were terminally ill.

1. Balance Healthy body and body weight
Dr. Jonathan Spages

2. Nutrition
 The study of how your bodies use the substances in
food to maintain our health
Affects your everyday tasks
Helps you grow and repair your body
Food affects feelings:
Hunger
peoples eating habits are affected when they are sad, happy,
and nervous

3. Nutrition
 Digestion- is the process in which food is broken
down into a form your body can use
 Nutrients- are the substances found in food that your
body needs to function properly.
 Your body makes some but most come from food
 Metabolism- the process of turning nutrients into
usable energy.

4. Nutrition
 Diet- is a pattern of eating
 Not always about losing weight
 Diet includes: when your eat, what you eat, how much you eat.
 Many factors affect diet, one for example is food choices

5. Food choices
 There are 6 factors that affect food choices:
 Your personal taste
 Family traditions
 Convenience of foods
 Overall cost of food
 Foods your friends eat
 Availability of foods in your area

6. Nutrients
 6 essential nutrients:
 Fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and water
 Fats, proteins, and carbohydrates are used for energy
 Vitamins and minerals control bodily functions
 Water controls temperature and is a transportation system.

7. Carbohydrates
 Chemical composed of one or more simple sugars
 Can be sugar or starch
 Starches are many simple sugars
 Fiber is carb that cannot be broken down
 1 gram of carbs is 4 calories

8. Fats
 Nutrients that store energy and store vitamins
 Can be found in solid or liquid
 Makes food taste better
 Contains more calories than any nutrient, 1 gram of fat is 9
calories.
 Eating foods high in fat will put more calories in the body then
needed, these extra calories are stored as fat
 Fat can block flow to the heart

9. Proteins
 Nutrients that are used for building, maintaining,
and repairing tissues and cells.
 Help make food into energy
 Meats and poultry good forms of protein
 1 gram of protein is 4 calories

10. Vitamins and minerals
 Vitamins- organic compounds that control many
body functions
 Minerals- elements that are essential for good
health.
 Can be found in all grown products
 Each vitamin and mineral has a certain function
 For example vitamin A helps with vision, and the mineral
calcium helps build bones.

11. Water
 No energy from water
 Can live for several weeks without food, but without
water a person can only live a few days
 Is used to fill spaces in the body, and lubricate and
transport
 Regulates body temperature
 Drink water

12. Balancing your diet
 The dietary guidelines for Americans
 The food guide pyramid
 The nutrition facts label
 What is a serving size
 What is a portion
 Build healthy eating habits

13. Healthy body and body weight
 What is body image
 Is the way you see and imagine your body
 What is a healthy and unhealthy body image
 Building a healthy body image
 The media, family
 I statements
 Eating disorders/Over exercising
 Managing your weight
 Healthy weight range
 What affects weight
 Keeping a healthy weight
 Why do you eat
 Eating healthfully
 Stay physically active

14. Thanks