Diets!✨🍱 Flashcards
What is your diet?
Your diet is the food that you eat each day.
What should your diet provide you with?
Your diet should provide you with some of all the different kinds of nutrients, and give you the right amount of energy.
What is a balanced diet?
A balanced diet is a diet containing all the different kinds of nutrients in the correct proportions and the right amount of energy.
How much energy should you eat each day?
Each day, the energy you eat should be approximately equal to the amount of energy you use up.
What does most of your energy come from?
Most of your energy comes from the carbohydrates and fat that you eat.
What factors affect how much energy you need in a day?
How active you are, your genetic composition, your age, your size and height, your gender and your physical condition(how healthy you are and if you have any illnesses) affect how much energy you need in a day.
What is an acronym for remembering this?
Anna’s(Activeness) Great(Genetic composition) Apple(Age) Salad(Size) Has(Height) Green(Gender) Peppers(Physical condition)
What type of people would use the most energy?
People who do a lots of sports, running, walking, manual work, have genes which quickly uses up energy, young, quickly growing people, who are tall, and male would use the most energy.
What type of people would use the least energy?
People who don’t move around much, have genes which use up energy slowly, are senior, and are short and female would use up the least energy.
What are the varieties and similarities between different diets?
Everyone needs plenty of vitamins and minerals, but people vary in how much protein and carbohydrate they need.
