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Understanding Your Body's Nutrient Needs: A Guide to Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, Vitamins, Minerals, and Water

Discover the essential nutrients your body requires to function optimally. Learn about carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water, and how they contribute to energy, growth, and overall health. Explore the different categories of nutrients and their sources, from carbohydrates like sugars and starches to proteins found in meat and nuts. Understand the role of fats in maintaining skin health and providing energy, distinguishing good fats like unsaturated fats from saturated and trans fats. Delve into the importance of vitamins in regulating body functions and fighting disease, and how minerals like calcium, iron, and potassium support your overall well-being. Lastly, grasp the significance of water, which makes up a significant percentage of your body and aids in digestion, waste removal, and temperature regulation. Enhance your understanding of nutrition and empower yourself to make informed choices for a healthier lifestyle.

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Understanding Your Body's Nutrient Needs: A Guide to Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, Vitamins, Minerals, and Water

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  1. Journal # 2 Give me an example of a food that you eat and why that particular food is good for you.

  2. Your Body’s Nutrient Needs

  3. NUTRIENTS • Substances in food that your body needs to carry out its normal functions

  4. NUTRITION • The process of taking in food and using it for energy, growth, and good health

  5. NUTRIENT CATEGORIES • Carbohydrates • Proteins • Fats • Vitamins • Minerals • Water

  6. Carbohydrates • Sugars and starches contained in foods • Primary energy source • 2 types of carbohydrates – Simple and Complex • Simple carbohydrates (sugars) –found in fruit drinks, candy, cake, cookies and table sugars • Complex carbohydrates (starches) – bread, rice, pasta, beans, and other vegetables that contain fiber. • Fiber – tough stringy part of raw fruits, raw vegetables, whole wheat and other whole grains. • Fiber can not be digested

  7. PROTEINS • Nutrients that provide the building blocks your body needs for growth • Help to make skin, bone, and tissue • Promotes healing and aid in the repair of tissues • Protein is found in meat, eggs, dried beans and nuts

  8. FATS • Nutrients found in fatty animal tissue and plant oils • Helps keep skin healthy • Source of energy • Good Fats - Unsaturated Fats • Unsaturated Fats (good fats) fish, nuts, and oils that contain unsaturated fat • Saturated Fats and Trans fats (bad fats) fried foods, margarine, and oils that contain saturated fat

  9. VITAMINS • Nutrients that help regulate body functionslike digestion • Vitamins help your body use other nutrients and some help fight disease • Vitamin A, Vitamin, B12, Vitamin C • Fruits and vegetables, whole grain breads, and meats

  10. MINERALS • Elements in foods that help your body work properly • Builds healthy bones and teeth, iron carries oxygen to your cells • Calcium, Iron, Potassium • Milk, red meat, nuts, potatoes

  11. 45 to 85% percent of the body is water Carries other nutrients around the body Amount of water you need depends on how much physical activity you get Helps with digestion removes waste cools you off WATER

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