Dietary Guidelines
Keshon Griffin
What do they do for Americans?
Dietary Guidelines encourage Americans to eat a healthful diet and maintain a healthy weight, promote health, and promote disease. A heath risk is anything that may reduce human health. These may be ranked according to high, low, or moderate. A diet is the kinds of foods a person eats.
Getting enough nutrients
4 factors that determine calorie needs are age, gender, how active you are and whether you are trying gain, maintain or lose weight. Nutrient Density is how much you get of one thing.
How to maintain a healthy weight?
A risk factor is any attribute, characteristic or exposure of an individual that increases the likelihood of developing a disease or injury. Heath problems that are related to too much body fat are diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Health risks for being underweight are having bones break easily, bruising easily being really fragile, heart disease and diabetes, and lower immune system. Eating healthy and increasing physical activity are two ways to lose weight.
Being physically active.
Active living can keep you from gaining weight and keep you healthy and also better sleep and higher energy. It is recommended that each teen should get at least 1 hour of physical activity a day. This could be as simple as walking a lot at school or cutting the grass or actually going to a gym. Including physical activity could help you gain muscle and lose body fat and calories.
Importance of whole grains, fruits, vegetables and milk.
They provide the body with the nutrients needed for healthy living and keep you from having health problems. 2 health benefits would be you feel a lot more healthy and also these foods prevent heart disease and high blood pressure. 2 ways to include them in your diet is by eating them regular or by adding them to other meals.
How to limit fats and cholesterol
The 2 types of fats that raise cholesterol are trans fats and unsaturated fats the
diseases that could develop from a high fat diet would be heart diseases and high cholesterol. Guidelines to achieve moderate fat intake are keep saturated fats to less than 10 percent of your calories, eats as few foods containing trans fats as possible.
Be choosy about Carbohydrates.
Food with natural sugars are things like fruit and milk. Things with added sugar are things such as soda and candy. You should limit your sugar intake so you don't be at risk for diabetes, tooth decay, and cavities.
Why Reduce Sodium and Increase Potassium ?
Sodium benefits the body because it helps control body fluids. Disease linked to too much sodium are high blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes. Potassium helps counteract sodium's effects on blood pressure.
Avoid Alcohol
Could disrupt development at a time when they are making important decisions about their lives such as school careers and relationships. Can affect visual functioning and it also can affect their ability to retain verbal information.
Why is Food Safety an Important part of the Dietary Guidelines?
It helps you be more active and prevent disease that can result by eating too much salts or sugars.