HOW FOOD AFFECTS LIFE
Name: ____________________________________________ Date: ___________________________
Food Meets Physical Needs
•_________________ = one of your most basic physical needs
• Provides _______________ required to maintain vital
functions
o
o
o
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Meets two basic ______________ needs
1. Relieves Hunger
2. Improves Wellness
Keeps your heart beating
Move your muscles
Build and repair tissues
Food Relieves Hunger
Food Improves Wellness
__________________ _______________ sends a message to brain 
brain receives message and gives signal, recognized as
hunger
• _____________________________is the state of being in
overall good health
• ____________________________ is the physical need for food
o
o
Hunger signal stimulates your stomach to produce
hunger pangs (pain in abdomen)
Hunger signal also stimulates appetite
• _____________________________ is a psychological desire to eat
Checkpoint Question: Do hunger (physical need) and appetite (psychological
desire) always go hand in hand?
Wellness
=
________________ Health
+
_________________Health
+
_______________ Health
Food Improves Physical Health
Food Improves Mental Health
Improves Social Health
•The ___________ of your body
•The health of your _____________
•Helps you grow and develop
normally

•The health of your relationships with
other people
•Can help avoid certain
__________________
Example:
Food can help you manage stress
o ____________________is mental
tension caused by change
o When you eat foods your body
needs, you are less likely to
develop certain illnesses
o
o
_____________________ can be a
major source of stress
Eating can give you strength
to face stressful situations
Example: high-fat foods make you feel
sluggish and impacts how you feel
about yourself
• Healthful foods can help you feel
__________________ and __________________
•Strength and energy can give you
confidence to be more outgoing as
you interact with others
•Food is part of ___________
_____________________
Factors That Affect the Food Supply
1. Regional agriculture and the environment
2. The government
3. Technology
Agriculture and The
Environment
• ________________________________ is
the use of knowledge and skill to
tend soil, grow crops, and raise
livestock
o
Successful agriculture
requires a suitable
environment
• ______________________________
refers to such factors as air,
water, soil, mineral resources,
plants, and animals
o
o
Certain crops grow
better in some regions
than in others
In the U.S. foods are
shipped from on
region to another
Government
Technology
• Two key federal agencies oversee
food supply in U.S.:

Technology to expand the food
supply
1. Nutrient content
2. Availability
3. Safety

________________________________– the
use of knowledge to develop
improved methods for doing tasks
1. ________________________________–
enforces standards for the quality
of meat, poultry, and eggs
2. _________________________________–
ensures the safety of all other
foods
o
o
o
Inspects food processing
plants too
Only responsible for foods
shipped across state lines
State agencies
Technology Affects Nutrient Content
• Less of some components and more of others
•
Market for food products with less sugar and fat
•
_________________________________________– sugar
substitutions that sweeten foods without
providing the calories of sugar
•
•
Aspartame, sucralose, saccharin
_______________________________________– cut the
amount of fat in foods while keeping the flavors
and textures fat provides
Technology Affects Availability
•
Concerns with finding ways to feed the growing
number of people on earth
•
Grow plants that resist _____________ and __________
•
Plants that grow larger and faster
•
_____________ ____________________ ____________________