Understanding

LESSON Nutrition
1 Education
 TOPIC OUTLINES

• Introduction to Nutrition
• Nutritional Status of Filipino Adolescent
• Nutrients
• Important Nutrients needed by the body as you
undergo changes during adolescence.
• Nutrition and Lifestyle Disease
• Nutritional Problem of an adolescents
• Different types of eating disorder
 OBJECTIVES

• Explain the health and nutrition concerns of

adolescent
• Identify the characteristics , signs and symptoms of
malnutrition
• Show ways to prevent malnutrition
• Discuss the relationship between nutrition and
common lifestyle disease
• Differentiate the diff. types of eating disorder
• Why are adolescents undernourished?
• What are the negative effects of malnutrition
among adolescents?
• Why is adolescent nutrition important?
 NUTRITION
• Is the area of health that focuses on making
food choices that will promote growth and
development and will reduce the risk of
diseases and illnesses.
• Good nutrition is dependent on the
combination of food that provides the various
nutrients on a daily basis.

• What will happen if we eat too much or too

less?
The best time to establish proper health and
nutrition practices and behaviours is during
adolescence.

Adolescence - is a period of transition between

childhood to adulthood.
How does proper nutrition help during
adolescence stage?
• Predict the possible effects of overweight and
underweight issues to student’s lives.
• Why are adolescents undernourished?
 What are the nutrition concerns of
adolescents?
• Skipping breakfast
• Poor selection of foods eaten during
meals/lunch
• Poor snacking
• Practice the fad diets to lose weight
• Eating disorders
Why are adolescents undernourished?
• Poor eating habits
• Poor food choices and intakes because of peers and
media
• Too conscious of the kinds and amounts of food they
eat
• School canteens or cafeterias serve less nutritious
foods
• Low intake of iron and Vitamin C-rich foods
• Skipping breakfast and poor meals
 What are negative effects of
malnutrition among adolescents?
• Delay in growth and development
• Poor performance in school
• Being sluggish and gets tired easily
• Delay in the development of secondary sexual
characteristics
• Poor nutrition in adulthood
• The formula for BMI is:

Weight in pounds x 703

(height in inches)²
or
Weight in kilograms
(height in meters)²
Weight in kilograms
(height in meters)²
Weight in pounds x 703
(height in inches)²
BMI WEIGHT CATEGORIES

BMI Weight Status

Below 18.5 Underweight

18.5 - 24.9 Normal

25 - 29.9 Overweight

30.0 + Obese