Healthy Eating Habits Flashcards
“One must eat to live… not to live to eat.”
Moliere
Top three leading causes of death in the Philippines in 2022
- Ischaemic Heart Diseases
- Cerebrovascular diseases
- Neoplasm
Science of foods and nutrients and other substances they contain, and of their actions within the body
Nutrition
What are the actions within the body?
Ingestion
Digestion
Absorption
Transport
Metabolism
Excretion
science of how living organisms obtain and use food to support all the processes required for their existence.
Nutrition
“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.”
Hippocrates (460-364 B.C.)
Good nutrition is essential to:
Preserve and build muscle.
Maintain healthy bones.
Maximize oxygen transport and use.
Repair existing cells and create new tissue.
Maintain optimal fluid and electrolyte balance.
Provide energy.
What is important in nutrition?
Healthy Food Choices
Adequate Fueling
Hydration
Understanding of Supplements
products derived from plants or animals that can be taken into the body to yield energy and nutrients for the maintenance of life and the growth and repair of tissues.
Food
the foods and beverages a person eats and drinks.
Diet
Why is Nutrition important for Exercise?
because it provides a source of energy required to perform the activity.
The food we eat impacts on our?
Strength
Training
Performance
Recovery
Enumerate the Nutrition Pyramid
Ergogenic Aids
Sport Foods
General Diet
Requires prescription
Ergogenic Aids
Convenient sources of macro and micronutrients which help meet general requirements
Sport Foods
Balanced Diet, variety of foods meeting fluid, macronutrient and micronutrient needs
General Diet
What are macronutrients?
Carbohydrates
Proteins
Fats
What is the basic units of Carbohydrates?
Sugars