Course Details
Nutrition and Wellness (Grade 9-12)
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Course Information
- Subject Area
- Human Services
- State Course Code
- 19253
- Length
- One Semester
- Total Hours
- 90
Nutrition and Wellness courses focus on how physical, mental, social, psychological, and emotional wellness are related to food, food selection, and health. Topics typically include dietary needs across one’s lifespan, stress management, special dietary issues, and eating disorders as well as societal and genetic health issues that are addressed through the prevention education component of the class. Other topics covered range from healthy food selection, label reading, and diet analysis to understanding additives, making wise food choices, and dealing with food allergies.
Learning Goals
- Differentiate among the terms nutrition, wellness, health care, health status, and healthy behavior
- Formulate an eating and exercise plan that uses the concept of energy balance
- Assess your body fat composition using the BMI
- Compare the nutritional needs of ordinary people versus athletes, and the different types of physique including ectomorphs, endomorphs, and mesomorphs
- Analyze lifestyle factors that influence wellness throughout the lifespan
- Apply information from Nutrition Facts labels to track your nutrient intake
- Formulate a more accurate self-awareness to support your health choices
- Investigate the links between self-management and responsible decision-making
- Develop and utilize an organized decision-making process for your health behaviors
- Construct an exercise plan that includes the four basic types of exercise
- Compare your current eating and health behaviors to those recommended by MyPlate and government agencies
- Analyze recipes for their completeness and nutrient content
- Formulate a meal plan that considers your budget, time-management, food preferences, and nutritional needs
- Connect genetic inheritance and family context to your health behaviors and risk factors
- Differentiate between peer pressure and groupthink as decision-making influences
- Analyze the social determinants of health to assess risks for health problems and poor health outcomes
- Judge the reliability of health information on websites, in advertisements, and on social media
- Investigate how ancient methods of keeping food fresh have evolved into foods that we see on grocery store shelves today
- Connect the conditions that cause food spoilage to ways that food in your environment is vulnerable to contamination
- Differentiate the types of safety and sanitation procedures used by the commercial food production industry
- Apply food science concepts to your own food preparation to keep the food you consume safe from pathogens
- Apply the US Dietary Guidelines to determine if you may have a deficiency, inadequacy, or excess of any key nutrients in your diet
- Analyze the causes of weight problems and eating disorders
- Assess the risks of different types of behavior to your health, including injury, sexuality, violence, and substance use
- Formulate a list of possible actions to help teens avoid risk-taking behavior that can have negative consequences
- Analyze your social connections to assess your social engagement
- Formulate strategies for resolving peer conflicts without becoming a bulldozer or a doormat
- Compare productive ways of using stress to negative attitudes about stress, with special attention on ways to prevent chronic stress
- Investigate your own concepts of the meaning of family and work/school to help you balance these two realms of life
- Investigate the complex relationships between government initiatives and the food system to explore solutions to hunger
- Apply the FCCLA planning process to personal, community, or worldwide problems to achieve realistic goals
- Cite evidence from a personal career inventory to propose possible career paths related to nutrition and wellness
- Analyze complex problems to identify the root causes, assess possible solutions, take action, and evaluate the outcomes
Choose Curriculum
Nutrition and Wellness
To keep our body and our mind running like finely tuned machines, we need to use the right fuel. For humans, that means nourishing our bodies with the right foods. In this course, you’ll explore how food affects essential aspects of your life from your weight to how you age to how well you think. You’ll also examine how outside influences- family, peers, and the media- can affect your diet and your perception of food and how to set yourself up for nutritional success. Are you interested in a career in holistic wellness? Start your health journey now with Nutrition and Wellness.
Online
Items
| Name | Kind | ISBN | Returnable | Shared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutrition and Wellness | Online Class | No | No |
Timeline
Unit 3: You Are What You Eat: Healthy Meal Planning
Unit 5: Considering Food Safety
Unit 7: Social & Emotional Health