Nutrients and diet changes through life stages

The resource explains the importance of macro- and micronutrients in a human diet and how the food requirements change throughout the life stages.

The lesson includes the following content:

• types of carbohydrates in food (simple, complex)
• the role of carbohydrates in diet
• types of food fats (saturated, unsaturated, trans-fats)
• the role of fats in diet
• the role of proteins in diet
• types of fibre (soluble, insoluble)
• the role of fibre in diet
• the role of water
• vitamins (water-soluble and fat-soluble) and and their roles in the correct functioning of the human body
• minerals (macro- and trace minerals) and their roles in the correct functioning of the human body
• NHS Eat Well Guide / Eat Well Plate
• Diet through different life stages:
  * Pregnancy
  * Breast - feeding
  * Infant (0-1 year)
  * Toddler (from 1-3 years)
  * Child (4-7)
  * Preadolescence (8 - 12)
  * Adolescence (13 – 18)
  * Adult
  * Elderly