Meal Replacements
Meal replacement means that rather than eating a proper meal or a snack, you will replace it with a formulated product. These products are usually marketed towards convenience or specific dietary related functions.
However, they all contain large risks to your health and must be consumed in moderation, or occasionally and in small amounts. They also tend to be high in chemical additives. Proper nutrition requires ingestion and absorption of fibre, vitamins, minerals and food energy in the form of carbs, proteins, veggie oils, and fats.
BEVERAGES AND BARS
Modern Australians become more and more busy, and so meal replacement beverages and snack bars are becoming more common, such as one square meal etc.
WEIGHT CONTROL PRODUCTS
The food market has an extreme abundance of weight and diet control products. Some meal replacements, such as shakes, soups, diet bars and drink or food powders, claim to help with weight loss.
Wight loss might occur in the beginning, however these types of diets are very difficult to sustain. You do not learn how to make healthier food choices, and so will regain the weight once they return to their normal diet. There are not only slimming products aimed mostly at women, but another range aimed mainly at men which promote the increment of muscle mass due to high protein, vitamin and mineral content.
There are health concerns about these meal replacement products as excessive intake of some vitamins and minerals can be dangerous, and excess protein can be stored as fat.
SNACK BARS
Snaking is important in the diet, and traditionally snacks were pieces of fruit or other ingredients commonly found in the home, like leftovers. Research now indicates that some Australians are replacing proper meals with snacks.
Packaged snack foods are now a significant business. Snack foods are designed to be portable, quick and satisfying. Processed snack foods are also designed to be non perishable, durable and more portable than other prepared foods. They often contain lots of sweeteners, preservatives and appealing ingredients such as chocolate, peanuts and flavours.
Some snack foods are often classified as junk foods because they typically have little nutritional value. With growing concerns for weight and general health, government are encouraging the public to eat healthier, more natural snacks such as fruit, veggies and nuts, and to avoid high-calorie, low-nutrient junk foods.
A 2010 study showed that children in the United States snacked on average six times per day, approximately twice as often as American children in the 1970s.
ELECTROLYTE REPLACEMENT DRINKS
These are designed to help people such as athletes rehydrate ad replace electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and salts that have been lost through sweating. Although these drinks were intended for athletes, they are also available to the general public. They come in many different flavours and colours to appeal to many different people. These drinks should be drunk in moderation as they are full of glucose for energy, and large amounts of electrolytes such as sodium, which can contribute to health problems such as hypertension.
TASK 7
1. What are the major health risks associated with meal replacement products?
You can consume to many vitamins and minerals, which can be linked to health problems, or alternatively not consume enough.
You can be consuming high calorie, low nutrient foods.
Many of these foods contain artificial additives.
You do not develop healthy eating habits
2. We gain weight if the calories we intake exceed our energy usage.
If you were to exceed your daily calorie intake by consuming extra snacks you would need to do extra exercise to burn off the excess calories and avoid putting on weight.
Using the charts provided on the class website, calculate how much exercise (Activity of your choice) would you need to do if you exceeded your daily calorie intake through snacking on:
1 hour of non-competitive basketball
50 mins of slow swimming
20 mins of slow walking
3.
a.Look at the slide show below it contains images of the ingredients lists from some popular food products such as Doritos, Potato chips, Gatorade and Diet Shake.
b. From the product labels, roughly count how many specific ingredients you do NOT know: what it is, where it comes from or what it does to your body.
Roughly 25-30
c. Would you still consider consuming these products considering the number of ingredients you don't know about?
I think I would still eat them because I hardly eat them very often. I think it is okay to eat these things in moderation, however you should also try to eat healthily. If a better option is available to you, I think you should consider eating that instead.
Post your number of ingredients and opinion on the on the class blog
However, they all contain large risks to your health and must be consumed in moderation, or occasionally and in small amounts. They also tend to be high in chemical additives. Proper nutrition requires ingestion and absorption of fibre, vitamins, minerals and food energy in the form of carbs, proteins, veggie oils, and fats.
BEVERAGES AND BARS
Modern Australians become more and more busy, and so meal replacement beverages and snack bars are becoming more common, such as one square meal etc.
WEIGHT CONTROL PRODUCTS
The food market has an extreme abundance of weight and diet control products. Some meal replacements, such as shakes, soups, diet bars and drink or food powders, claim to help with weight loss.
Wight loss might occur in the beginning, however these types of diets are very difficult to sustain. You do not learn how to make healthier food choices, and so will regain the weight once they return to their normal diet. There are not only slimming products aimed mostly at women, but another range aimed mainly at men which promote the increment of muscle mass due to high protein, vitamin and mineral content.
There are health concerns about these meal replacement products as excessive intake of some vitamins and minerals can be dangerous, and excess protein can be stored as fat.
SNACK BARS
Snaking is important in the diet, and traditionally snacks were pieces of fruit or other ingredients commonly found in the home, like leftovers. Research now indicates that some Australians are replacing proper meals with snacks.
Packaged snack foods are now a significant business. Snack foods are designed to be portable, quick and satisfying. Processed snack foods are also designed to be non perishable, durable and more portable than other prepared foods. They often contain lots of sweeteners, preservatives and appealing ingredients such as chocolate, peanuts and flavours.
Some snack foods are often classified as junk foods because they typically have little nutritional value. With growing concerns for weight and general health, government are encouraging the public to eat healthier, more natural snacks such as fruit, veggies and nuts, and to avoid high-calorie, low-nutrient junk foods.
A 2010 study showed that children in the United States snacked on average six times per day, approximately twice as often as American children in the 1970s.
ELECTROLYTE REPLACEMENT DRINKS
These are designed to help people such as athletes rehydrate ad replace electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and salts that have been lost through sweating. Although these drinks were intended for athletes, they are also available to the general public. They come in many different flavours and colours to appeal to many different people. These drinks should be drunk in moderation as they are full of glucose for energy, and large amounts of electrolytes such as sodium, which can contribute to health problems such as hypertension.
TASK 7
1. What are the major health risks associated with meal replacement products?
You can consume to many vitamins and minerals, which can be linked to health problems, or alternatively not consume enough.
You can be consuming high calorie, low nutrient foods.
Many of these foods contain artificial additives.
You do not develop healthy eating habits
2. We gain weight if the calories we intake exceed our energy usage.
If you were to exceed your daily calorie intake by consuming extra snacks you would need to do extra exercise to burn off the excess calories and avoid putting on weight.
Using the charts provided on the class website, calculate how much exercise (Activity of your choice) would you need to do if you exceeded your daily calorie intake through snacking on:
- French Fries (Med)
1 hour of non-competitive basketball
- Doughnut (1)
50 mins of slow swimming
- Apple Slices (1 apple)
20 mins of slow walking
3.
a.Look at the slide show below it contains images of the ingredients lists from some popular food products such as Doritos, Potato chips, Gatorade and Diet Shake.
b. From the product labels, roughly count how many specific ingredients you do NOT know: what it is, where it comes from or what it does to your body.
Roughly 25-30
c. Would you still consider consuming these products considering the number of ingredients you don't know about?
I think I would still eat them because I hardly eat them very often. I think it is okay to eat these things in moderation, however you should also try to eat healthily. If a better option is available to you, I think you should consider eating that instead.
Post your number of ingredients and opinion on the on the class blog