Unit 3 : Diet And Nutrition Flashcards
What is a nutritious diet?
A nutritious diet is a mixture of all the nutrients that our body needs to survive.
What should you eat to gain essential nutrients for your body?
We should eat grains, fruits, vegetables, milk products, animal products, and beans, and oily foods to gain essential nutrients for our body.
What is a major cause of ill health?
- is the lack of essential nutrients.
How can you strengthen your immune system and protect against illness?
- by having a balanced diet.
What kinds of food should you avoid eating?
- processed foods, refined foods, and high-cholesterol food.
Why are forests beneficial to us?
- because they can provide us with an excellent source of foods such as mushrooms, bamboo shoots, nuts, berries, leaves, and tubers.
What can cause loss of biodiversity and loss of nutrition in local communities?
Deforestation
Mention some nutrition-related health problems.
- malnutrition and infectious diseases
Why is nutrition said to be closely related to the environment?
- because environmental deterioration can cause nutrition-related health problems such as malnutrition and infectious diseases.
Why should we avoid eating processed food?
- because they contain a lot of sodium which causes high blood pressrue.
What is nutrition closely related to?
- the environment
What will happen if national institutions and local communities fail to protect the environments around them?
- their hopes of thriving in the long run will be dashed.
What will deforestation lead to?
- loss of biodiversity and loss of nutrition for many local communities.
What is the root cause of the environmental damage?
- pollution
What can environmental deterioration cause?
- can cause nutrition-related health problems such as malnutrition abd infectious diseases.
What adversely affect diet, nutritional value and health?
- Environmental damage and loss of biodiversity
What does ‘nutrition’ refer to?
- refers to ‘the process by which all living things recieve food necessary for them to grow and be healthy.
What are the most fundamental of human needs?
- Diet and nutrition
What do environmental damage and loss of biodiversity affect on?
- adversely affect on diet, nutritional value and health.
What are diet and nutrition strongly linked to?
- environmental factors.
Classify food into different groups.
Food can be classified into different groups: grains, fruits, vegetables, milk products, animal products and beans and oily foods.
How many kinds of nutrients do foods carry, what are they?
Foods carry six kinds of nutrients: carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, proteins and lipids.
What foods provide carbohydrates?
Grains such as rice, wheat, maize, millet, barley and corn are energy-giving foods that provide carbohydrates.
What do fresh fruits and vegetables give us?
- minerals, vitamins and fibre.
