Nutrition
Ahmed Yazin Fareed
8D
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Content
• Introduction
• Balanced Diet & The importance of eating a variety of food in the right
proportions
• Factors influencing food choices
• The role of media in advertising
• My own advertisement
• Reference
• Conclusion
Introduction
This presentation is
about nutrition. It is
defined as the process
by which an animal or
plant takes in and
utilizes food
substances. Essential
nutrients include
proteins,
carbohydrates, fat,
vitamins, minerals, and
electrolytes.
Normally, 85% of daily
energy use is from fat
and carbohydrates and
15% from protein.
Nutrition is essential for
growth and
developments, health
and being. Your
nutritional status is the
state of your health as
determined by what
you got.
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Balanced Diets &
Importance Of Eating A
Variety Of Food In The Right
Proportions
• A balanced diet is a diet
that is meant to give
your body the amount
of nutrients that it
requires.
• Too much or too little of
something can be
harmful to the body.
Therefore, a balanced
diet consists of having
a balanced diet helps
us fight against
sicknesses and keep
us fit in general.
• If we don’t take in the
required amount of
nutrients that we need,
we could face many
types of health issues.
Even though it doesn’t
seem that important, it
can do a great deal of
damage to us if we
don’t give our body
what it needs.
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Factors Influencing
Food Choices
• This reviews examines the
major influences on food
choice with a focus on those
that amenable to change and
discusses some successful
interventions.
• There is a direct connection
between our diet and health.
Lack of appropriate knowledge
regarding the quality of the
food we consume contributes
to poor diets and high obesity
rates.
• Individual factors like income
level, gender, age and
genetics also contribute to the
choices we make. Health
conditions like allergies,
diabetes and eating disorders
also restrict our food choices.
• The key driver for eating is of
course hunger but not
determined solely by
physiological or nutritional.
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The Role Of Media In
Advertising
• Adolescence is crucial stage of
growth, so the focus should be on
helping children consume foods
from all the groups. Yet most of the
advertisements that we see focus
on sugary foods, fast food meals
and packaged foods which only
increase health related problems.
• Advertising also plays a huge role
in shaping the ever-changing
norms of society both nationally
and globally. With the growing role
of advertising in the lives of people
attention now is being paid to the
various negative as well as positive
effects of advertising
• Food industry advertising that
targets children and youth has
been linked to the increase of
childhood obesity.
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Healthy Foods
A balanced diet is
important for teens as they
grow up into a young adult
There are lot of benefits of
eating healthy
Handles stress better
Loss in weight
Improves your immune system
References
H.PE Book Grade 8
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322268
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