(WL) Wellness Module Overview

Wellness Module Overview

Introduction

When considering a career in food, nutrition and wellness, understanding weight-related disease, how to manipulate calories to gain, maintain and lose weight, and understanding health industry consumption guidelines is crucial. In this module, you will create innovative ways to communicate health-related information, design diet plans, and discover strategies to lower the intake of harmful substances like fat, sodium, caffeine and sugar. You will also gain a better understanding of eating disorders and how they affect ones overall health.

Essential Questions

• What do healthy and unhealthy eating habits look like?
• What healthy strategies can be applied to a weight loss/gain/management plan?
• How can you examine traits, examples, and health risks of fad diets?
• What are some ways to reduce the risk of contracting obesity related disease?
• What are examples of eating disorders and their symptoms?
• How do food related illnesses cause financial and personal consequences?
• What strategies do dietictans offer to their clients to lower the intake of fat, sodium, caffeine, and sugar?
• How do artificial sweeteners impact one's diet and health?

Key Terms

1. Artificial sweeteners - substances that are used in the place of sweeteners with sugar or sugar alcohols; also called sugar substitutes.
2. Caffeine - a crystalline compound that is found in tea and coffee and is a stimulant of the central nervous system.
3. Diet - the kinds of food that a person habitually eats.
4. Eating disorder - serious condition in which a person is so preoccupied with food and weight that they can often focus on little else.
5. Eating habits - refers to why people eat, how people eat, which foods people eat, whom they eat with,  and the ways people obtain, store, use, and discard food.
6. Fad diets - weight loss plans that promise dramatic results; usually do not result in long-term weight loss and are unhealthy and/or dangerous.
7. Fat - a natural oily or greasy substance in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs.
8. Nutrient deficiency - a disease that results from excessive or inadequate intake of food and nutrients which leads to conditions such as obesity, liver disease, and rickets.
9. Sodium - the chemical element of atomic number 11; when combined with other elements, it is used in foods (sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate); salt.
10. Sugar - a sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, especially sugar cane and sugar beet, consisting of sucrose, and used as a sweetener in food and drink.

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