Activity 8

NUTRITION IN ADOLESCENCE, ADULTHOOD AND ELDERLY

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Work Exercise No. 1. Base on this excerpt, normal adolescent growth and development as
well as physical activities and health problems involved and require increased specific
nutritional needs, what will be your effective and efficient way of eliciting this opinion?
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Work Exercise No. 2. Discuss the eating patterns of Filipino adolescents.

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Work Exercise No. 3. What possible strategies can you give in which you can stimulate
interest in nutrition among adolescents?
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Work Exercise No. 4. During adulthood, the control of health problems requires continuing
preventive care and individual therapeutic measures with optimal nutritional support. In the
field of nutrition and dietetics, proper diet and nutrition is our concern. You as a practitioner
in this field what advice can you give in order to achieve these? List down some guidelines
for proper diet and nutrition during adulthood that can be advised.

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Work Exercise No. 5. Describe various approaches to health promotion. Which do you think
has the greatest application to current health issues among adults? Why?
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Work Exercise No. 6. Among elderlies, the growing segment is considered to be the fastest,
sometimes nutrition support services are required to maintain independent healthy living.
Aging brings a gradual decline in normal physiologic functions. In order for you to get along
with the discussion, it is important to know first the physiologic changes during aging
particularly with regards to nutrition. Can you name what might be the reason of these
changes during the transition from adult to elderly? What are the things to consider to
maintain or improve the nutritional status? List down some physiologic changes that an aging
person undergoes. Recall now your lesson in anatomy and physiology and relate this to
nutrition and dietetics.
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Work Exercise No. 7. Describe several physiologic changes that occur with normal aging.
Give a nutritional implication of each.
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Work Exercise No. 8. Plan and calculate a diet suitable for a 14-year-old male high school
student who stand 5’5” with an actual weight of 59 kg.
Compute for:
a. DBW

b. BMI with Classification

c. TER (Use the energy requirement per kilogram DBW as to age range)

d. Protein requirement

e. Percentage distribution (Use NPC Method)

f. Diet Prescription
Work Exercise No. 9. Plan and plan a diet suitable for a 34-year-old female nurse who stand
5’1” with an actual weight of 57 kg.
Compute for:
a. DBW

b. BMI with Classification

c. TER

d. Percentage distribution

e. Diet Prescription

Work Exercise No. 10. Plan and calculate a diet for a 68-year-old male retired policeman
who stand 5’6” with an actual weight of 73 kg.
Compute for:
a. DBW

b. BMI with Classification

c. TER

d. Percentage distribution

e. Diet Prescription

CONCLUSION:

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