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Nutrition and you
Members:
Fabian Perez
Jonathan Salvador
You Are What You Eat
nutritional pyramid
Water
• Its essential to the body because we are
made of 72% of water and we need to
rehydrate to be healthy and its
recommended to drink 6 to 8 cups per day
( It doesn’t include soda or any drink that
is not water).
• it also helps to clean your body for toxins
and viruses
Energetic
• Carbohydrates or monosaccharides, disaccharides, or
polysaccharides by the number of monomer (sugar)
units they contain. They constitute a large proportion of
foods such as rice, noodles, bread, and other grainbased products. Monosaccharide contain one sugar unit,
disaccharides two, and polysaccharides three or more.
• Polysaccharides are often referred to as complex
carbohydrates because they are long chains of sugar
units
Regulators
• The fruits and Vegetables are very important in your
daily foods.
• Fruits and vegetables have vitamins and minerals.
• You have to put in your meal the half of fruits and
vegetables, like tomatoes that are fruits and lettuce that
is a vegetable.
• Vitamins help your health like Vitamin C from orange
help you immune system when you are ill.
Proteins
• Proteins give you strength and energy like
steak, fish, beans, etc.
• Milk which is in the dairy list also has
proteins and (children have to drink 3 cups
of milk a every day) help bones to grow
and get stronger.
Energetic (Fats)
• Polysaccharides are often referred to as complex
carbohydrates because they are long chains of sugar
units, whereas monosaccharides and disaccharides are
simpler. The difference is important: complex
carbohydrates take longer to digest and absorb since
their sugar units are processed one-by-one off the ends
of the chains. The spike in blood-sugar levels after
ingestion of simple sugars is thought to be involved in
causing heart and vascular disease. Simple sugars form
a greater part of modern diets, leading to more
cardiovascular disease in populations. Simple
carbohydrates are absorbed quickly, and therefore raise
blood-sugar levels more rapidly.