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Essential Nutrients for a Healthy Lifestyle: Carbohydrates, Fats, Proteins, and More

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Understanding the essential nutrients is crucial for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Carbohydrates provide energy and come from sources like wheat, fruits, and vegetables. Fats, although often viewed negatively, are vital for satisfaction and energy, found in nuts and oils. Proteins are necessary for building and repairing tissues, sourced from meat and dairy. Fiber aids digestion and is found in grains and legumes. Vitamins and minerals support growth and bone health, while water keeps the body hydrated and is crucial for various bodily functions.

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Essential Nutrients for a Healthy Lifestyle: Carbohydrates, Fats, Proteins, and More

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  1. Nutrients By Alexia BoothBlock A

  2. Carbohydrates • Gives energy • Sources: wheat, fruits, vegetables, dairy ect. • broken simple sugars, absorbed bloodstream • Complex broken slowly • may increase health problems • Nutrients eaten provide energy • 2 types: simple-sugars & Complex-starches

  3. Fats • Provides engery • Nuts, oils, butter, and meats ect. • Sounds like shouldn't eat, fat is important • Fat helps satisfy • Older 2 years need 30% fat • Greasy substance in organic tissue • 2 types: Saturated & Trans

  4. Protein • builds up, maintains, replaces tissues • Sources: meat, fish, dairy, nutsect. • muscles, organs, and immune mostly protein • used to build cardiac muscle • uses protein to make specialized molecules • tissue in molecules, as a food source • Different types that do different things

  5. Fibre • Hold tissue together • Sources: Grain, fruits , legumes • Fiber -carbohydrates that cant be digested • Both kinds of fiber as part of a healthy diet • Carbohydrates are with fiber • Material in long pieces that hold tissue • Types: Textile, natural & man made

  6. Vitamin • Makes body work • All foods • Strong bones to transmit nerveimpulses • Help body grow, develop, stay healthy • Builds strong, healthy teeth • Group of organic essentials • Types: macrominerals & trace minerals

  7. Minerals • Helps body grow, develop, & stay healthy • Diary, Veggies, Fruits, Meat, Grains ect. • Includes iron, manganese, copper, ect. • Build strong bones • Build strong, healthy teeth • Class substances occurring in nature • Types: macrominerals & trace minerals

  8. Water • Provides oxygen, makes up blood • In everything • You can get dehydrated • Water is also in lymph • Part of your immune system • A transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid

  9. Bibliography • http://kidshealth.org/kid/nutrition/food/carb.html • http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/feeding/sugar.html • http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/fat.html • http://kidshealth.org/kid/nutrition/food/protein.html • http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/nutrition/fiber.html# • http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/minerals.html • http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/water.html

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