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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SANTA

LANGUAGES CENTER

CEIDUNS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

TEACHER:

STUDENT:

GUILLEN SANCHEZ

Jhoseline Stacy

CYCLE:

INTERMEDIATE IV

Functional Food

Healthy Nutrition

ENGLISH

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I. What are functional Food?

Functional foods are those that, beyond their nutritive function, they have beneficial physiological actions for the body and help reduce the risk of chronic diseases.

They can be found in natural or processed form.

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II. FOOD CONTAIN THEM NATURALLY

Some of the commonly consumed foods that contain beneficial components for health are tomatoes, broccoli, carrots, garlic, tea, fatty fish like salmon, mackerel, sardines and tuna.

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II. FOOD CONTAIN THEM PROCESSED

Some examples are: yogurt, fermented milk products, wine, fortified cereals.

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II. Types of Functional Food

The Arab emirate of Kuwait consists largely for sandy desert and plane shallow depressions and small hills

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II. Why eat functional Food?

Consumers want to prevent rather than cure diseases.

Medical costs are increasing more and more.

Consumers are more aware of the link between nutrition and health.

Consumers want to counteract the significant increase in the risk of environmental pollution, microbes and chemicals in air, water and food.

There is growing scientific evidence of the effectiveness of these products.

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REMEMBER THAT:

To maintain health you have to eat a varied and complete diet.

It includes at least 2 dishes of vegetables and three fruits every day.

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

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