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    The document discusses nutrition in animals and the importance of a balanced diet. It defines a balanced diet as one that contains carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, minerals, water and fiber in the correct proportions to supply the body with enough energy, materials for growth and development, and to maintain good health. The document also notes that a balanced diet is affected by factors like age, sex, occupation, and medical conditions like diabetes and hypertension. Specific dietary needs and recommendations are provided for vegetarians, diabetics, and individuals with high blood pressure.

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    The document discusses nutrition in animals and the importance of a balanced diet. It defines a balanced diet as one that contains carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, minerals, water and fiber in the correct proportions to supply the body with enough energy, materials for growth and development, and to maintain good health. The document also notes that a balanced diet is affected by factors like age, sex, occupation, and medical conditions like diabetes and hypertension. Specific dietary needs and recommendations are provided for vegetarians, diabetics, and individuals with high blood pressure.

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    Nutrition in Animals

    Balanced diet
    OBJECTIVES
    You should be able to:
    • Name the components of a balanced diet.
    • Discuss the importance of a balanced diet.
    • Discuss the effects of age, sex and occupation on the dietary
    needs of individuals.
    • Discuss the dietary needs of vegetarians, diabetics and persons
    with hypertension.
    FOOD RIDDLES

    1. What is the wealthiest nut?


    2. Which kind of fruit must have a large wedding ceremony with lots of people in
    attendance?
    3. What did the doctor prescribe to the sick lemon?
    4. What has an ear but cannot hear?
    5. What fruit never ever wants to be alone?
    6. Which fruit is a celebrity?
    7. What kind of food is always tardy?
    8. What is the most deceitful and dishonest fruit?
    9. The rabbit became rich when he found 24 of what?
    10. What fruit loves to go crazy and go wild?
    11. I am the most cowardly and fearful of all foods and do my best to run away.
    Introduction

    • What is food?
    • Why do we need food?
    • What does it mean to ‘eat like a cow’?
    Exploration-research
    Use your textbook and/or the internet to answer the following.

    ▪ What are the:


    • six food groups (give 3 examples for each)
    • seven nutrients (give three food sources of each)
    ▪ List the:
    • nutrients supplied by each food group
    • main roles of each nutrient
    ▪ What is a balanced diet?
    ▪ Discuss the factors that affect a balanced diet.
    ▪ Discuss the dietary needs of vegetarians, diabetics and persons
    with hypertension.
    Six food
    groups
    Food groups
    Food groups
    Food groups
    Categories of
    food
    Balanced
    diet
    The food an animal eats is called its diet.
    Humans must consume a balanced diet
    each day.
    This must contain carbohydrates,
    proteins, lipids, vitamins, minerals,
    water and roughage in the correct
    proportions to supply the body with:
    • enough energy for daily activities
    • the correct materials for growth and
    development, and
    • to keep the body in a healthy state.
    Primary functions of the six
    major nutrients
    macronutrients
    Go, grow, glow foods

    Go

    Grow

    Glow
    Factors affecting a balanced diet
    Factors affecting energy
    requirements
    ❖The amount of energy required daily from the diet depends on a
    person’s age, occupation and gender (sex).
    ❖In general, daily energy requirements:
    • Increase as age increases up to adulthood. They then remain fairly
    constant up to old age when less energy is required daily.
    • Increase as activity increases, e.g. a manual labourer requires more
    energy than a person working in an office.
    • Sex of an individual, higher in males than in females of the same age
    and occupation.
    • Increase in a female when she is pregnant or breast feeding.
    Factors affecting a balanced diet
    Diabetes

    • Diabetes can be controlled by eating a healthy, balanced


    diet that is:
    – low in sugar and saturated fats and
    – high in dietary fibre supplied by fresh fruits, vegetables
    and whole grains.
    • In particular, people with diabetes should consume foods
    containing polysaccharides rather than simple sugars, and
    fish and lean meat rather than fatty meats.
    Hypertension

    • Hypertension (high blood pressure) can be controlled by


    eating a balanced diet that is:
    – low in saturated fat, cholesterol and salt,
    – and high in dietary fibre, potassium, calcium and
    magnesium.
    • The diet should contain plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables
    and whole grains together with low-fat dairy products, fish
    and lean meat.
    • Persons suffering from hypertension should also stop
    smoking, reduce obesity and reduce alcohol consumption.
    Vegetarianism
    EVALUATION

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