We need the correct nutrition to keep our bodies and minds working smoothly. For humans, it involves eating the proper meals. This course will examine how food influences essential areas of your life, such as weight, age, and mental health. In addition, you’ll learn how family, friends, and the media may affect your diet and food perception, as well as how to prepare for nutritional success. Do you want to work in holistic wellness? Start today with Nutrition and Wellness.

Diet, nutrition, and health

We are a wellness-obsessed society, but what is wellness? Understanding that—and how it relates to diet and health—can help us adopt better habits. What nutrients do in the body may help us understand nutrition and wellbeing? This section will study good eating habits and lifestyle choices for a long and healthy life.

What will you learn?

• Recognize the distinctions between healthy behavior and nutrition.
• Create an eating and exercise plan based on energy balance.
• BMI calculates your body fat percentage.
• Compare the dietary requirements of regular individuals and athletes and the ectomorph, endomorph, and mesomorph physiques.
• Examine how lifestyle choices affect health throughout life.

Obstacles to Good Health

Maintaining your health and wellbeing isn’t always straightforward — there will be setbacks. For example, do you obtain enough nutrients daily? Or is your connection with food wholesome and long-lasting? Don’t worry; understanding some of the hazards to avoid will help you stay healthy. Plus, knowing how to negotiate peer pressures, conventions, and risk factors can help you prevent numerous diseases and injuries. If you can’t control every hiccup, understanding when to seek assistance is crucial.

What will you learn?

• Use the US Dietary Guidelines to check your diet for nutritional deficiencies, excesses, or inadequacies.
• Examine the causes of obesity and eating disorders.
• Examine the health hazards of various behaviors, such as injury, sexuality, aggression, and drug usage.
• Make a list of suggested measures to assist youth in avoiding risky behavior.

Global Wellness

Every day, millions of people worldwide suffer from hunger and malnutrition. Many organizations work to alleviate global hunger, and you may participate by using your nutrition knowledge and developing your leadership and cooperation abilities. We’ll discuss possibilities if you want to pursue a career in nutrition. Dietitians, chefs, and organizations that provide healthy foods to individuals near and far are just a few of the alternatives available. We’ll also help you examine your abilities, personality, and interests to determine the ideal vocations for you and how you can contribute locally and globally.

What will you learn?

• Examine the interplay between government activities with the food system to find answers to hunger.
• Use the FCCLA planning method to solve personal, community, and global issues.
• Using a personal career assessment, suggest prospective careers in nutrition and wellness.
• Analyze complicated issues to find fundamental reasons, evaluate solutions, act, and evaluate results.