NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE.

WHAT IS HEALTHY EATING?

• Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods that give you the nutrients you need to maintain your health, feel good, and have energy.
• While researchers are still studying the effects of eating unhealthy food on breast cancer and recurrence risk, we do know that being overweight is a risk factor for both first-time and recurrent breast cancer.

1.1 CONCEPTS:

• Food
• Diet
• Meals and snacks
• Nutrients

FOOD:

• Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.
• Its can be taken by: Mouth,tube.
• Example:Chips,Salad,Fruit, Vegetable,Sweet.

DIET:

• food and drink regularly provided or consumed or a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one's weight
• Example: my diet for all of the day is I don't eat breakfast but some time I drink tea and some times if I feel hungry I eat bread with chess sometimes with egg and mango juice,and until the lunch I eat snacks like chips, cookies.

MEALS AND SNACKS:

• Meals:Any of the regular occasions in a day when a reasonably large amount of food is eaten.
• Snack:a small amount of food eaten between meals
• Example:Breakfast:bread and cheese and milk. In lunch: rise with chicken.In Dinner: I eat sometimes spaghetti.And Snacks between the meals: Fruit and Chips.

NUTRIENTS:

• A substance that provides nourishment essential for the maintenance of life and for growth.
• Example:Protein:milk,eggs,cheese.
• Carbohydrates:bread,potatoes.
• Vitamins: milk,fish,cheese.
• Minerals: vegetables,fruits.

1.2 NUTRITIONAL HEALTH.

• It's divided into 5 types:
• 1. Malnutrition
• 2.Undernutrition
• 3.Deficiency
• 4.Overweight
• 5.Obesity

MALNUTRITION :

• the unhealthy condition that results from not eating enough food or not eating enough healthy food : poor nutrition. And it's divided into two types: 1.Over nutrition. 2. Under nutrition.

OVER NUTRITION:

• Overnutrition can develop into obesity, which increases the risk of serious health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer, and type-2 diabetes.
• The World Health Organization describes the current problem: In the poorest countries, even though infectious diseases and undernutrition dominate their current disease burden, the major risk factors for chronic diseases are spreading.

UNDER NUTRITION:

• 1.nutritional deficiency resulting from lack of food or from the inability of the body to convert or absorb it
• Example: As an example for the under nutrition the poor people who have nothing to eat so they have a sever hunger.