Improve Your English Vocabulary: Diet, Health, and Nutrition
Improve Your English Vocabulary: Diet, Health, and Nutrition
Essential vocabulary about nutrition and health in English. Are you planning to start a diet? Looking to gain or lose weight? In this lesson, we will cover a wide variety of words, including ‘ingest’, ‘digest’, ‘arteries’, ‘carbohydrate’, ‘fat’, ‘fiber’, ‘sodium’, ‘metabolism’, and more. I will teach you which nutrients are good for your body (such as proteins) and which ones are bad (like trans fats), and I’ll explain exactly what calories are. Plus, you will discover how the body breaks down food into energy. The vocabulary you will learn is very useful because it ties into so many other subjects, like anatomy, biology, and fitness.
Now, watch these other healthy vocabulary lessons I’ve done:
1. Vocabulary of your body & organs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNk73qAY01I&list=PLxYD9HaZwsI5C0d8CivHvoI_-0rs8XMfc&index=5
2. Medical vocabulary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW22_OnpS5Y&list=PLxYD9HaZwsI5C0d8CivHvoI_-0rs8XMfc&index=72
TRANSCRIPT
Hi. Welcome to www.engvid.com. I’m Adam. In today’s video, we’re going to talk about: nutrition. So, we’re going to get a little introduction into how to maintain a proper diet, what you’re eating, what you should eat, what you shouldn’t eat, how much you should eat, etc. And we’re going to especially look at the different types of nutrients that you should put into your body if you want to grow, if you want to maintain, if you want to lose weight, etc.
So, we’re going to start with the basic process. Okay? Eating, drinking, all these things. We’re going to look at these two verbs: “ingest” and “digest”. Okay? So, when we’re talking about nutrition, we’re talking about what you’re taking into your body. So, when you ingest something, when you ingest nutrients, you are swallowing them or absorbing them. So, “swallow” basically means chew and swallow. Right? So, “chew” is break down the food in your mouth, and then you swallow it; you take it in and push it down into your stomach. You can also absorb nutrients. For example, we absorb vitamin D from the sun through our skin. Okay? So, you can absorb or swallow – means you’re ingesting your nutrients.
In your stomach, your stomach produces juices-they’re mostly acids-that break down the food and separate it into its different components that can then be absorbed in the intestines. So, the intestines are the long tubes that go back and forth from your stomach until the waste comes out, and inside all the good nutrients get absorbed into the blood, and pushed around to all the parts of the body that need them.
So, let’s look specifically at the nutrients that you’re going to need. Now, first thing you need to know about nutrients are… Is that they are not synthesized naturally by the body. So, the body produces a lot of the things it needs, but some things it just can’t synthesize; it can’t put together to create a new nutrient. So, these nutrients need to be ingested; they need to be put into your body, basically. Right? And we have: Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. And these are considered essential. You can live without carbohydrates, but you can’t live without these nutrients. Okay?
So, what are these? So, “carbohydrates”-we call them “carbs” for short-these are the nutrients that provide your body energy, especially for your brain. Okay? They come from fruits and vegetables, grains… So, for example, bread, which comes from wheat or whatever other kind of grain, has a lot of carbohydrates. Comes from sugars, and starches, like rice, etc. So, all of these give your body a lot of energy. Now, you also get energy from the other minerals… From the other nutrients as well, but carbohydrates are a very good source. The problem is they can also lead to weight gain, if you don’t control the intake. Okay? We can also say: “intake of nutrients”. Basically means take in; intake. Okay? So, carbohydrates.
Then we have proteins. “Proteins” are the nutrients that help create and build tissues and muscles in your body. So, when a child is growing and getting bigger, it’s the proteins that help create that growth. It’s good for bones, and muscles, and tissues, etc. Proteins are made of amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein, and there are many different types of amino acids. And these days you can take pills specifically with the amino acids that you want for specific things. So, nowadays, you see a lot of guys or girls – big, big muscles, and you think: “Oh, steroids.” Right? Not necessarily; they could just be taking a lot of amino acids, and exercising a lot, and growing their muscles and looking much bigger. So, proteins are basically the building blocks.
“Fats” are the nutrients that store energy. So, if you eat too many carbohydrates, the fats will store that energy as sugar, and that’s why you get fat. That’s why it’s called… When a person is a little bit heavy, we sometimes say: “Fat”. […]
Thanks for excellent lesson.
Adam, thank you! This lesson is helpful as always!
Hi, I have a very important question which is undoubtedly other English learners’ issue too. Whenever I learn new words or phrases, I put them in my Notes in my iPhone and look up their definitions and examples. So, until this stage, I’ve learnt the words. However the problem is “why I can’t remember them in my speaking? Why all those brilliant words are stuck in my notes and I can’t use them? What should I do to be able to use all of them fluently abs without hesitation? Please help me with that. Thanks.
Adam is the smartest teacher. Not only he can teach you any subject, but he also explains it very clearly. I feel like I am learning English and gaining more knowledge about Nutrition at the same time. 🙂
Thank you Adam., apart from English tutorial you gave more information
He is so inteligent that he understands nutrition to … That’s not possible this teatcher !!!
If your English is great, why do you click here and then dislike the video? He is doing a great job for us who want to improve our English.
Of course yu.r Amazing Adam thancks Alot
Thank you so much Adam
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I have been watching almost all of your videos. You are an amazing teacher.
Thank you Adam! I see lessen very nice👋😍
Oh my goodness, this is more than a simple English class. Thank you for your time Adam. This class is very good and important for my process as student.
I think the people in general need to be a more polite than rude,if you’r hide behind a display this doesn’t means you can press dislike and maybe be rude as well thinking this clean shames on you. I really only can say Thank you. I really love your videos and how you help the people for survive in a ielts test or just improve the language.
It’s perfectly clear no questions. Excellent man!
One of the very best english teacher in the word with high interessting contents!
Thank You Adam!
Greatings from Germany
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Amazing video! Thanks a lot!
If you are fat you can say I am just storing to much energy 🙂
thank you so much for useful information! I think I didn’t even know that in my mother language 😅
Great video fella you just got another suscriber, grettings from Guatemala!
Thank you Adam!
Thank u for all your lessons! Nutrition it’s so important and to learn vocabulary about that it is amazing. Greetings from Mexico
I feel Like take a science lesson more than english lesson🤣but still thanks a lot to Adam for this lesson
I love the video. Congratulations!.
thank you. I ask my students to watch this video. very useful.
Mr. Adam, Thank You so much, very informative video.
Wow!!! What a great video!!!! So clarifying
Excellent thanks teacher Adam, greettings!!
Excelent!!!!
Thank You Adam, I love your videos so much, they are very helpful for me..
We can also call exertion as egestion
Very good English lesson also good information,thanks!
Adam, keep on making such useful videos!! Thanks a million!
very good interesting topic,only one mistake no4 ,then i realised what i did
I like all your lessons. It’s too useful for non- English speakers.
Thanks Adam, This was very helpful to improve my English skills. I will speaking exam about healthy lifestyles and healthy food next week.💜🍀
Thanks
awesome 👌🏼
You are a good teacher bcz your talking nd teaching, i understand clearly,,,thanks again
Hello from Indonesia
Love your content man
It’s really helpful. Thankyou
Thanks a lot. Very useful
2 liters water per day, not too much.
Good morning Adam,
Your English-lesson are so clear…it’s possible to understand all about your teaching. Then, through your way to teach us the English language we can feel how much love you put on it. How many times I’m wishing to have a drink with you.
Thank you so much for your way to be.
Dude this has been one of the best videos that i’ve seen, i could learn english as well as nutrition, now i know a little bit more about both, you really deserve my like because the world lacks good people like you
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Carbohydrates are essential as well as protein and lipids. Our brain is the biggest consumer of glucose, and has a unique source just for it. Even on a low carb diet our body still uses glucose, meaning it is impossible to live without carbohydrates.
Great lesson Adam!
I totally agree with you. A diet is more important than any exercises. If you want to have 6 pack abs first of all you need refuse harmful food. You should comply with proper nutrition. Secondly you need exercise hardly and properly. And after that you sometimes should have a rest for recovery damaged muscules and tissues of your body.
thanks a lot