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Glencoe Food, Nutrition & Wellness Chapter 10 Choices for Your Healthy Weight

Chapter 10 Choices for Your Healthy Weight

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Chapter Choices for Your Healthy Weight

A healthy lifelong weight promotes overall wellness. Eat smart and be physically active to reach and maintain your healthy weight.

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Content Vocabulary Academic Vocabularyhealthy weight

body composition

Body Mass Index

underweight

overweight

obesity

body image

energy balance

fad diet

determine

significant



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Every Body Is DifferentPeople of all shapes and sizes, not just tall and slim, can be happy and healthy.

You Are Still Growing•Gaining weight as you grow is natural.

•Everyone grows at different rates.

•A few teens keep growing until their early 20s.



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Your Healthy Weight

Healthy weight varies from one person to the next—for teens as well as adults. Many factors determine healthy weight, such as age, height, growth pattern, gender, and body type.

healthy weightAppropriate weight.



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Your Healthy Weight

Because body types are so different, body composition is a better measure of how fit you are than your body weight alone.

body compositionThe measure of how much bone, muscle, fluids, and body fat you have.



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Your Healthy Weight

Body Mass Index is one way to understand your height and weight patterns.

Body Mass IndexShows weight in relation to height.



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Your Healthy Weight

Find your BMI on the charts on the following slide to determine a weight range that is right for you.

determineTo decide by looking at choices.



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Your Healthy Weight

What Is Your BMI?

1.Divide your weight in pounds by your height in inches.

2.Divide this number by your height in inches.

3.Multiply the result by 703.



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Weight Issues

How much you weigh influences your physical and mental health. Being underweight can be harmful.

underweightHaving too little body fat.



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Weight Issues

It is also harmful to be overweight.

overweightHaving too much body fat.



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Weight Issues

Obesity is a serious health problem that can increase risk factors for diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and some forms of cancer.

obesityHaving a significant amount of excess of body fat.



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Weight Issues

Obese means having a significant amount of excess of body fat.

significantMeasurably large.



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Accept Your Body Type

It is important to accept the body you have. How you see yourself—overweight, underweight, just right—is body image. Healthy teens do not try to achieve someone else’s idea of a perfect body.

body imageHow you view your body.



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Smart Choices for Your Healthy WeightExtra pounds may mean your body is growing.

Balance the Energy Equation

You do not need to count calories to control your weight. Instead, to achieve a healthy weight you need to maintain an energy balance.

energy balanceWhen what you eat and how much energy you spend equals the same amount.



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Wellness

Stay Balanced

•You maintain weight when the calories you eat and drink equal the calories you burn.

•You lose weight when the calories you eat and drink are less than the calories you burn.

•You gain weight when the calories you eat and drink are greater than the calories you burn.

Smart Choices for Your Healthy Weight



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Wellness

Keep Your Healthy Weight•Learn how much you need to eat from each food group in MyPyramid.

•Know how many discretionary calories you have to spend.

•Stay physically active.

•As you get older, keep exercising and eating smart.

•Forget about dieting.

Smart Choices for Your Healthy Weight



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Wellness

You may need to lose or gain weight someday. To help you reach your weight goal, track your food intake and physical activity.

A Slow, Sensible Path to Reach Weight Goals



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Why Fad Diets Are Not the Best ChoiceA fad diet does not help develop healthy patterns of eating and physical activity for the long run.

Avoid these risky diet fads:•All-liquid diets•Fasting•Diet pills

fad dietWeight-loss plan popular for a short time.



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After You ReadReview Key Concepts

Explain the factors that determine your healthy weight.

Healthy weight varies from one person to the next and depends on age, height, growth pattern, and body type.



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After You ReadReview Key ConceptsDiscuss the reasons to maintain a healthy weight.A person who maintains a healthy weight has a better chance of good overall health. A person who is underweight will have too little body fat and can cause poor growth, depression, infections, and other diseases. A person who is overweight or obese will have too much body fat and can have a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancer. Being overweight can also affect your mental and social health negatively.



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Describe ways to achieve and maintain your healthy weight.

To maintain weight, stay physically active and learn how much you need from each MyPyramid food group. Choose the right amount to provide enough food energy for growth and know how many discretionary calories you can spend and choose them wisely. Forget the notion of dieting; instead, keep the weight that is right for you as your body grows.



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Explain why fad diets do not promote healthy patterns of eating. Fad diets may advise you to crash diet or skip meals. Smart ways to manage your weight include balancing calories consumed with calories used for energy; eat the right amount of foods from each MyPyramid food group; know how many discretionary calories you have to spend and use them wisely; stay physically active; adjust exercise and eating habits as you get older to maintain the right balance.



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