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Nutrition
By: Nelson
Block B
Computers 8
General information
• 7 types of nutrition
• Contains 6 main food groups
-Meats
-grains
-Vegetables
-fruits
-Diary products
-fats and oils
• Helps prevent health problems
• There is nutrition in food
Carbohydrates
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Provides energy for physical activities
Two major types : simple and complex
Simple: sugars
Complex: starches
Sources: breads, candy, fruit, veggies, etc
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Stores food energy
Types saturated and unsaturated
Saturated: found in food plants and fish
Unsaturated: meat and other animal
products
• Sources: Nuts, Oils, Meat, Butter
Protein
• Helps you move and protects you from
disease
• Your muscles, organs and immune system
is mostly made of it
• Best sources are:
• - meat like beef
- dairy products
• - black beans
- fish
Fibre
• Good for digestive system
• Lowering risk of diabetes, heart disease
and constipation
• Great sources are:
- Whole fruits
- whole vegetables
- Whole grain bread - breakfast cereals
- All types of beans
Vitamins
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Without it your body won’t develop and grow
Examples are:
A helps you see at night
B helps your body make proteins and energy
C helps your body heal
D helps your bones
Examples: fruits, vegetables, eggs, yogurts, etc
Minerals
• Needs to stay healthy and to grow
• Two kinds : Macro minerals and trace
minerals
• Macro : you need a lot of it
• Trace : you only need a bit of it
• found in diary products, cereal and
vegetables, etc
Water
• You need it so you can carry oxygen to
your cells
• Need for your immune system to help off
disease
• Makes up half of your body weight
• Best sources to get water is water, milk
Bibliography
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Carbohydrates
http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/carb.html
Fats
http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/fat.html
Protein
http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/protein.html
Fibre
http://kidshealth.org/kid/word/f/word_fiber.html
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-youeat/fiber/index.html
Vitamins
http://kidshealth.org/kid/nutrition/food/vitamin.html
Minerals
http://kidshealth.org/kid/nutrition/food/minerals.html
Water
http://kidshealth.org/kid/nutrition/food/water.html