Food and Nutrition Vocabulary
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Essential Nutrients and the 5 Food Groups
By Oliver Smith
A healthy diet is essential to a long and happy life, but what makes a diet healthy? The activities in this lesson will help students recognize the importance of a varied diet and why they can't just have cake for every meal!
Storyboard Text
- Calorie
- Digestion
- Scurvy
- A unit of energy, often used to describe the energy in food. The energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1o C.
- The process of breaking down food into substances the bodies can use, using mechanical action and enzymes.
- A disease that is caused by a lack of vitamin C. Symptoms include sore arms and legs, feeling weak and tired, and brittle curly hairs.
- Obesity
- Food Vocabulary
- Balanced Diet
- Obesity is the state of being so overweight that is has a negative effect on health. A person is obese if their BMI (Body Mass Index) is over 30.
- A diet that contains the correct proportions of the different nutrients including vitamins and minerals
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- Aquafina Water Bottle - djwaldow - (License Attribution, Non Commercial )
- Eat a Balanced Diet (213/365) - trenttsd - (License Attribution )
- Grilled chicken marinated in roasted garlic mustard vinaigrette - SaucyGlo - (License Attribution )
- Magog, Québec - colros - (License Attribution )
- Milk - HealthGauge - (License Attribution )
- No scurvy! - Fotoffigrafie - (License Attribution )
- potato - Iqbal Osman1 - (License Attribution )
- Salad - iRubén - (License Attribution )
- Something doesn't add up here... - sylvar - (License Attribution )
- Stomach Pic for Food Poisoning Thingy - danxoneil - (License Attribution )
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