Healthy Diet
9SCIE - Energy for Life
Finn Le Sueur
2024
Mahi Tuatahi
- Name two foods that you have eaten today that contain carbohydrates.
- What does your body use proteins for?
- Name two foods that contain heaps of fats.
Ngā Whāinga Ako
- Be able to create a healthy diet
Life Functions
All animals and plants need food. Food gives us the energy to carry out our life processes. To help us remember what the life processes are we use:
MRS C GREN
- M ovement
- R espiration
- S ensitivity
- C irculation
- G rowth
- R eproduction
- E xcretion
- N utrition
Task
Use a full page of your book to make a poster explaining a special diet you have created.
- Include specific foods that are allowed/disallowed
- Perhaps a food pyramid
- The type of nutrients being focussed on in the diet
- Example meal plans
Calories and Fat
- Kilojoules in food:
- Kilojoules per week: kJ x 7 = kJ
- Kilojoules per year: kJ x 365 = kJ
- 37.7kJ will turn into 1 gram of fat, therefore
- Fat per year: kJ / 37.7 = g = kg