1. Activity Time!
• The class will be divided into 5
groups.
• Each group will pick one
representative from their group to
play the game.
• The player will have unpuzzled
pieces of the picture. Each player will
be given 1 minute to puzzle the
picture.
Minute to Win it!
4. Food Nutrients
People Are heterotrophs. They cannot make
their own food from inorganic substances but
must take in organic molecules from the
environment. The nutrients that any animal
must ingest as food may be classified as
macronutrients and micronutrients.
5. MACRONUTRIENTS
01
- are fats, carbohydrates, and
proteins. All three can serve as
sources of the energy that we need to
survive.
Food Nutrients
MICRONUTRIENTS
02
- are the substances that an organism
must have in its diet in small quantities
because it cannot make them for itself
or because it cannot make them as fast
as it needs them.
6. Malnutrition and Diet
About 20,000 people die of starvation
every day, and at least 10 million children
in the world are so malnourished that
their lives are in danger.
7. Malnutrition and Diet
1. Starvation means death from
lack of food. Most people who are
inadequately fed do not actually
die because they take in too few
calories to sustain life.
8. Malnutrition and Diet
2. Some 45 compounds and elements
found in the foods are considered as
essential nutrients necessary for life and
health of human beings. These nutrients
are divided into five general categories:
carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins,
and minerals.
9. Malnutrition and Diet
3. Human nutritional requirements can be
met by eating some foods from each four
groups daily. The food four groups
categories are as follows.
10. Malnutrition and Diet
3. Human nutritional requirements can be met by eating
some foods from each four groups daily. The food four
groups categories are as follows.
a. Milk and dairy products are for
calcium, proteins and other nutrients.
Soybeans have become milk
substitute but are not rich in calcium.
11. Malnutrition and Diet
3. Human nutritional requirements can be met by eating
some foods from each four groups daily. The food four
groups categories are as follows.
b. Meat, fish, poultry or eggs are for
proteins, fats and vitamins. These
are luxury foods for most of the
world and are more expensive.
12. Malnutrition and Diet
3. Human nutritional requirements can be met by eating
some foods from each four groups daily. The food four
groups categories are as follows.
c. grains and starchy vegetables are for
carbohydrates, vitamins, and some
proteins. They include the staple foods
such as wheat, rice, potatoes, and corn.
13. Malnutrition and Diet
3. Human nutritional requirements can be met by eating
some foods from each four groups daily. The food four
groups categories are as follows.
d. Fruits and vegetables are for
carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and
some proteins. These are absent in diets
of poor people because they are
expensive.
14. The traditional diets of various people in the world differ
tremendously, from East Africa Masai diet of berries,
grains, vegetables, milk and blood from cattle to the
Polynesian diet of coconut, fish, breadfruit, taro, tropical
fruits and occasional pork and poultry. American and
European diet are influenced by the diets of many
countries, including China, Spain, France and England.
However, Filipino diet always includes boiled rice, fish,
meat and vegetables.
World Food Preferences
15. The Politics of Hunger
Hunger and its incidence in various parts of the world are
determined by political considerations. The problem of hunger
is largely the problem of poverty. Most of the poverty and
hunger in the developing world exist among rural people who
are accustomed to working the lands and growing their own
food.
16. The Politics of Hunger
The existing nutritional deficiencies results either from insufficient
supplies of some or all of these foods, or from poverty or ignorance.
To comprehend nutritional problems, one must be aware of the
problems of:
a. Agricultural development and production
b. Food distribution and pattern
c. Agricultural economics
d. Cultural food preferences
e. Public health situation
17. Issues on Nutrition
Nutrition is the substrate upon
which growth and development
feed. It is a basic precondition for
the maintenance of good health
because of its role in the fight
against diseases. It remains to be a
fundamental issue in health.
18. Issues on Nutrition
Quite apart from overt disease is
due to or abetted by malnutrition,
the profound effects on physical
and mental development in growing
children and work capacity and
performance in adults give rise to
corollary problems that are difficult
to quantify.
19. Probably, the most basic solution to
malnutrition is the attainment of food
security which will assure adequate supply
and universal access to food.
Issues on Nutrition
20. Issues on Nutrition
Disease and malnutrition assume the
proverbial sequence of which comes
first, the chicken or egg. However, it is
established that for some diseases, the
effect of nutritional status is a major
determinant of morbidity.
21. In an island nation like the Philippines, isolated pockets of
population may suffer from the peculiarities of geography. Due to
difficult access to these places, food supply may from time to
time dip, which results in decrease in consumption. Most of
Issues on Nutrition
these regions cannot also produce the quantity
and variety of food needed for adequate
nutrition.
22. Issues on Nutrition
Unfortunately, the only specific solution
for malnutrition is the provision of more
food to supply the deficient calorie and
nutrient. Therefore, food security cannot
be substituted with alternative
interventions no matter how effective
they may be.
