Nutrition assignment. In 1939 1945 most people had a very healthy eating diet compared to our days this is because the food has been rationed. Vitamins, minerals and protein. Importance of water.

Sonal Mistry

Nutrition

Unit 21 Assignment 1

(Task 1 P1)

What is Nutrition?

Some food have different flavours, colour and skin, they are all different to each other too.

The food contains chemical which we eat and reacts in our body in a different way that helps our body to function and work properly.

The food is a thing that we eat some of its good for the health and some of its bad for health.

Book Reference:

Tull Anita, food and nutrition on page 5

Balance of good health

A good healthy balance shows the correct type of proportions of food needed these are

Carbohydrates are found in bread, potatoes, and are found in different types of cereals.

Carbohydrates are also found in pasta, rice, oats, noodles, maize, cornmeal and also millet.

Fat are found in margarine, butter, cooking oil, mayonnaise, chocolates, crisps, biscuits, pastries, cakes ect.

Protein are found in meat fish, eggs, nuts, beans, and pulses

Fruit and vegetables – you should eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

Milk and Dairy products can be found in milk, cheese, yogurt, frontage frays.

To maintain a healthy eating diet you should follow a certain rule and guidelines which are listed below.

You should like to enjoy eating a wide range of food
Eat foods which are rich in fibres and starch such as bread, cereals, potatoes, and flakes.
Eat the right amount of food to be at a healthier weight.
Eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.
You should drink at least six – eight units of water a day.
You should avoid having surgery food or dinking too often.
Cut down on the food which contains excess fat.
Drink a sensible amount of alcohol an example of this would be two to three units of alcohol a day.

Reference:

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A good healthy balance encourages people to eat healthier diet; this also aims to give people a simple particle message about eating healthy foods.

A good healthy balance diet applies to almost everybody including vegetarians who come from different ethnic origins, those who are healthy in weight, and those who are under and over being obesity. The good healthy balance diet doesn’t apply to people who are under the age of two years old this is because they need eat and drink full fat milk and lots of dairy product.

Vitamin and minerals are not good supplements for good healthy diet this is because the drinks which contain glucose (sugar) from squash or fruit juice and carbonated drinks needs to cut down sugar because this may lead to serious tooth decay or damage.

The elderly people may need extra vitamins to help make their bones stronger and to prevent them from having wrinkles, the children also need to drink plenty of protein to help them grow.

Reference:

Class hand out

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Health Diet throughout the Second World War

In 1939 – 1945 most people had a very healthy eating diet compared to our days this is because the food has been rationed (shared out), however the British government introduced food rationing this was to make sure that everybody would get there own share of the limited food that was available to them.

In 1940 food rationing began and finished in 1954, at the beginning of 1940 only a few food was rationed but as the years went by more and more food were shared out making everybody happy and along with this an additional amount of food was given out and an additional amount of allowance was given out too but this was given to certain people, and each person was given their own ration book this is so the people can tell who has been given their fair share or not.

For the un rationed a new scheme was introduced this was called points, every individual person had owned a number of points they had to pick the selected range of food that was given a point value, this was really up to the buyers or the costumer on how they wanted to spend their points.

Reference:

Wartime rationing during the Second World War (1939 – 1949)

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Information for Rationing

In the 1970’s people didn’t know what types of food to chose so they decided to eat gunk food such as biscuits cakes so they started to eat unhealthy food such as cakes, crisps and fizzy pop.

Report 1 - National Advisory Committee National Education 1983 (NACNCE)

The report gives us advice on what to eat however in the 1983 NACNE report suggested a reduction and reduce fat intake this was mainly on saturated fat, this also involves an increase dietary population of polyunsaturated fats to the saturated fats, you should also take an increase intake of complex carbohydrates and fibres. It was also suggested that you should cut down intakes of salt and sugar in order to keep a healthy diet.

The NACNE report outlines the dietary targets and the aims for the prevention and avoidance of a range of diseases which is connected with the prosperity, however one of the other target that was set was increased in fibre use, therefore the target was then divided up into the following:

By the end of 1980s short term targets is to be achieved.
By the end of the century long term target is to be achieved.

Report 2 - Committee on Medical Aspect of Food Policy (COMA)

This is another report which was from a group COMA (committee on medical aspects of food policy), however this report was published in the year 1984 and it was based on diet and cardiovascular disease.

This report suggested recommendations for reducing the use of fat and saturated fat by the populations for the preventions and avoidance of cardiovascular disease.

The recommendations are made for fat reduction was also in agreement with those in the NACNE report.

Reference:

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From the Year 2000+

The food standard agency (FSA) started to advertise the traffic light system. This advertisement is actually labelled on the food packaging when you go to the supermarkets; this is to maintain a healthy balance diet and its telling you that you should cut down on mainly saturated fats, salt and sugar.

The traffic light system is on the front of the food packaging and it tell the buyer that the food they are thinking of buying has high, medium, and low amounts of fats, saturated fats, this also tells us about the amounts of sugar or salt.

The red light means that the food is high in certain things which you should be trying to cut down on.
The amber light means that the food is neither high nor low within the nutrients which mean it will be ok.
The green light means that the food is low in the nutrients; this means that it’s a healthy product.

In January 2008, Jamie school dinners actually mentioned what has actually gone wrong with the food, and that’s why it use to be healthy and why it has gone wrong now.

Jamie Oliver suggested ...