Nutrition-related vocabulary

 

Let's revise the vocabulary of Unit 6!

Factors affecting food and nutrition

The following factors affects food and nutrition.

·  Basal metabolic rate

·  Weight

·  Age

·  Sex

·  Climate and environment

·  Physical activities

·  Physiological state

·  Socio economic factors

·  Cultural factors

o      Life style and food habits

o      Food fads

o      Cooking practices

o      Child rearing practices

·  Religion

·  Traditional factors

·  Food production and distribution.

Products useful for the body

 

Benefits of Healthy Eating for Adults

 

Healthy eating habits for seniors

 

Benefits of healthy eating

 

The role of nutrition in maintaing health

Role of nutrition in maintaining health

Nutrition is a basic element of health. Nutrition influence the health from birth to death.

Growth and development

· Good nutrition is essential for attainment of normal growth 

and development during fetal life and childhood. 

Physical growth, intellectual development, learning and 

behaviour are affected by malnutrition.

·  Adequate nutrition is needed for adult life maintenance for 

optimum health and efficiency.

·  Elder people needs special nutrition due to their 

physiological and chronological changes. 

·   Pregnant and lactating mothers require more proteins 

and nutrients to prevent abortion, growth retardation 

and low birth weight babies and provide adequate 

breast feeding for their babies.

Specific deficiency diseases

·  Good nutrition is essential to prevent nutritional 

deficiency diseases, promotion of health and treatment 

of deficiency diseases: protein energy malnutrition, blindness, goiter, 

anemia, beriberi, rickets etc. There is increased incidence 

of abortion, prematurity, still birth and low birth 

weight babies in malnourished mothers.

Resistance to infection

·  A well balanced nutrition prevents infections like 

tuberculosis. Good nutrition enhances wound healing. 

Improves resistance of an individual towards infections.

Mortality and morbidity

·  Malnutrition leads to increased death rate, infant 

mortality rate, stillbirths and premature deliveries. Prematurity 

is the major cause of deaths.

·  Over  nutrition  causes  diseases  like obesity, diabetes, 

hypertension, cardiovascular and renal diseases and causes death.

Modal Verbs III - Should

 

Ex. 1