A Flashcards
(25 cards)
Nutritional needs of babies
- totally reliant on parents forfood
- initially drink only milk
- weaning
- 6 months - solid food few times per week
- 7 months- more texture and tastes
- 9-12 monthsp-chopped, mashed or minced food\
- vit d from birth
- adc 6 months unless on ormula milk
Foods to avoid for babies
- salt- bad for kidneys
- sugar- dental caries
- limit sat fat
- whole nuts- choocking
- mould ripened cheese-bactera
- raw eggs unless red lion stamped
- shark, swordfish and marlin- mercury
Toddler/pre schol children nutritional needs
- lots energy needed
- balanced diet
- high proportion complex carbs
- per day portions
- 5x starchy foods
- 5xfruit and veg
- 3x dairy foods
- 2-3x protein
What should food be for toddlers
- easy to hold
- variety of interesting shapes, colours, flavours and tectrues
- suitably sized portions
Nutrition needs fo school aged children
- eatwell guide
- 19g protein 4-9 y/o
- 45mg calcium
- 10mg iron
- starchy carb main energu source
- reggular physical cativity to maintain healthy body weight
Nutritional advice for teenager s
- energy deense food from complex carbs
- teenage boy 1600 to 2600 kcal
- teenage girl- 1400 to 2200 kcal
- girl high in iron - 14.8mg
- high calcuium and phosporus
- 1000mg boy and 800mg girl
- protein
- 0.75x body weigt or
- 52g boy and 46g girl
- 60min exercise per day
What should food be for teenagers
- affordable-quick
- fashionable
- easy
- sustain a busy and energetic lifestyle
Nutriotional need for adult
- depend on occupation
- lower than most teenager
- base on eatwell guides
- no more than 14 units alcohol
Nutritional need older people
- balanced diet
- appetising products in small quantities
- easy to prepare
- nutritional needs
- easy t open packaging
- decrease calories- less physical activity
- high fibre- 30g/day
Nutritional needs menopause
- 700mg calcium
- 10mg vit d
- active
Nutritional need pregnant women
- atleast 60g protein
- vit d and calcium
- women and baby bone growt and tooth development
- folic acid
- supplements before and for first trimester
- iron- baby blood supply
- limit fatty and sugary foods
- gain n more than 10-12 kg
Avoid when pregnant
- alcohol
- unnpasturised milk
- raw fish
- high mercury fish
- high doses drug
2nd trimester
350 kcal more
3 rd trimester
500 kcal more
Nutritional needs for lactating women
- 330-400kcal
- caffeine-no more than 300mg/day
- alchol-1-2 units/12x week
- fish0 2 portions per week
Food allergu
-body has an allergic reaction when consumesa food or ingredient
Allergen
- substance in food causing reaction
- body produces too much histamine and other chemicals causing abnmal reaction
- symptoms- rashes, ithing, runnny nose, swelling
Anaphylactic shock
- v severe alergy
- vv sudden serious swelling around neck
- leaad to death
- peanut, strawbeery, kiwi fruit, sea food, nut
Food intolerenc e
- harder to diagnose
- diagnose by stopping eating food
- symptoms- abdominal pain, aches, bloating, nausea, diarrhoea
If hav intolerance must
Read labels- allergens emboldened
-ask when eating out
Lactose intolerance
- inability to digest lactose
- shortage lactase hormone produced in small intestine
- lactase breaks down milk sugar so body can easily digest
- if hot-lactase ferments
- flatulence, cramps, diarrhoea
Cows milk allergy
- allergic response to one or more of proteins present in milk (albumen, casein, whey))
- usually immediate resonse
- bloating, vomiting, eczma, asthma, headaches, joint pain
Health implications of cows milk allegry
- ml\ilk high on
- calciu, phosphorus, magnesium, b12, b2
Coeliac disease
- automtic response to gluten/protein in wheat, barley, rye, triggers immune reaction
- damage villi in small intestine
- reduces surface are for nutrint absorption
- symptoms
- diarrhoea, stomach pain, tiredness, malnutrition
- can eat
- naturally gluten free- meat and fruit, rce potatoes lentis
- gluten free processed foods- ready meals, soups