UNIT 21: Nutrition for Health and Social Care

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UNIT 21: Nutrition for Health andSocial Care
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3P1 Concept of nutritional health.................................................................................................3P2 Describe the characteristics of nutrients and their benefits to the body ...............................4TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................5P3 Using a case study in HSC setting explain six influences on dietary intake ........................5TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................6P4 Use a table to summarise one week quantitative analysis ....................................................6P5 Prepare one week dietary plan that will improve nutritional value of individual .................7CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTION Nutritional health is defined as food intake that includes all necessary minerals, vitaminsand fats. In the following report different topics covered are concept of nutritional health,characteristics of nutrients and their benefits. This also has discussion about influence on dietaryintake and one week dietary plan for improving nutritional value of an individual. TASK 1 P1 Concept of nutritional healthThe nutrients and their function are mentioned below - Food Type Concept of Function Protein rich foods Building Blocks Carbohydrate rich foods FuelVegetables and fruits Protectors and Helpers Nutritional health refers to eating variety of food that provides nutrients for maintaininghealth and getting energy. It is essential for everyone to eat nutritional food and especially for illpeople it is advisable to intake nutritional food to stay fit (Killer and et. al., 2017). There areseveral building blocks of the body which includes proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Proteins arerequired for growing baby, adolescents and repairing blood, damaged skin and other parts of thebody. There are some parts in body which develops and grow continuously such as blood andskin. Thus adults also need nutrients for these parts. Calcium is known as the building block ofbones and iron is called as building block of blood. The blood cells of human body lasts for fewmonths thus body needs proteins and iron for making new blood. Nutrients are needed by a bodyfor doing daily activities of life. The following table shows some examples where an individualrequires nutrients- Symbol Functions Children Stacking Blocks Food and protein as building block Running Child Carbohydrates for energy and food for fuel Growing Child Growth for good nutrition Child Flexing muscle Protein for strength and growth Food rainbow Minerals, vitamins and phytochemicals which

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