This document discusses nutrition and healthy eating. It explains that a balanced diet with enough vitamins, minerals and water is important for health and energy. A diet is defined as a person's overall eating pattern. The document lists factors that influence food choices and provides guidelines for a healthy diet from nutrition experts. It also discusses body image, unhealthy eating behaviors, and eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

1. EATING
RESPONSABILITY
Alejandra Cuellar
Camila Medina
Luisa Ramires
Karol Medina
Paula Mora

2. NUTRITION AND YOUR
LIFE

3. You are what you eat.
Eating too little food can
lead to low energy, weight
loss, poor growth, but
eating too much food can
also cause poor health.
NUTRITION AND YOUR
HEALTH

4. • Eating too much food can cause you to become
overweight because of excess body fat. Being
overweight can lead to obesity, so it's very clear your
health depends on what you eat.

5. • The food you eat greatly affects your overall health.
including your ability to stay active, and to study.
• Vitamins, minerals and water are the most
important nutrients because provide energy to your
body.

6. WHAT IS A DIET?
• A diet is a pattern of eating that includes what a
person eats, how much a person eats, and how
often a person eats. a person's diet is important
because is describes how he or she eats every day.

7. INFLUENCES ON YOUR
FOOD CHOICES
*Your personal taste.
*Foods that are convenient for you.
*Foods common in your culture.
*Foods your friends eat.
*Your family or religious traditions.
*The cost of food.
*Availability of certain foods in your area.

8. THE NUTRIENTS YOU NEEDTHE NUTRIENTS YOU NEED
Your body has energy every day in every moment, so
there are some advises that you can follow to have a
good nutrition.

10. Vitamins
Vitamins are organic compounds that control several
body functions.
The table 1 below, lists good sources of vitamins and
minerals that can help you with the nutrition of your
body.

11. Water
• A human cannot survive for
more than a few days
without water. That is how
important water is to your
body.
If you do not get enough
water every day, your body
will not function properly.
if you do not drink enough
wáter, your body may dry out.

12. MAKING HEALTHY CHOICESMAKING HEALTHY CHOICES
THE DIETARY GUIDELINES.THE DIETARY GUIDELINES.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans are a set ofThe Dietary Guidelines for Americans are a set of
suggestions developed by nutrition scientists andsuggestions developed by nutrition scientists and
public health agencies. These suggestions can helppublic health agencies. These suggestions can help
you develop healthy habits.you develop healthy habits.

13. THE PYRAMIDTHE PYRAMID
Pyramid food guidance system is a tool that shows
you what kinds of foods to eat and how much of each
food you should eat every day.

14. The nutritions facts
label
• It is a label found on the outside packages of food and
states the number of servings in the container, the
number of calories in each serving , and the quantity of
nutrients in each serving.

15. 1. The first part shows you the serving size of the
food and the number of servings in the package
2. The second part shows you how many calories
you get from eating one serving of the food.

16. BODY IMAGE WITH…

17. BODY IMAGE
• Do you ever compare yourself
with people you see on tv or in
magazines? If so, you are
probably thinking about your
body image . Your body image
is how you feel about or see
your body

18. Your body image will be influenced by several factors

19. BODY IMAGE AND SELF-STEEM
Your body image can affect your self-steem . Self-steem
is how much you value , respect , and feel confident
about yourself.

20. EATING DISORDERS

21. UNHEALTHY EATING
BEHAIVOR
The media tell us that the ideal female is very thin and the
ideal male is slim and muscular. As a result, people become
overly concerned about their weight.

22. Unhealthy eating behaivors include limiting yourself to
eating only certain foods. It can affect a person’s ability
to learn, can disrupt our growth and can have damaging
effects on our health.

23. Overexercising
The fear of becoming overweight and the stress of wanting to
have perfect bodies cause many teens to exercise too much.
People who overexercise may suffer from extreme tiredness
and feelings of sadness.

24. What is an eating disorder?
An eating disorder is a disease that involves an unhealthy
concern with one’s body weight and shape. It often affect
teens who have low self-esteem and who suffer from
depression.

25. Anorexia Nervosa
It is a eating disorder that involves self-starvation, an
unhealthy body imagine, and extreme weight loss. People
who have it, have a intense fear of being fat. They also feel
fat even thought they are very thin

26. Bulimia Nervosa
It is an eating disorder in which a person eats a
large amound of food and then tries to remove the
food from his or her body. People with Bulimia feel
ashamed that they ate so much, so they get rid of
the food by making themselves vomit.