Six Essential Nutrients: Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, Vitamins, Minerals, and Water, Study notes of Nutrition

Download Six Essential Nutrients: Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, Vitamins, Minerals, and Water and more Study notes Nutrition in PDF only on Docsity! =. 6 Essential Nutrients Learning Target I will be able to identify the 6 essential nutrients the human body needs • Success Criteria:  I can name each essential nutrient.  I can describe each nutrient’s function.  I can explain how to obtain healthy amounts of each nutrient in my diet. What does your body do with carbs? • Easiest to break down • Breaks it down into it’s simplest form (sugar) • Goes into the bloodstream (blood sugar level) Proteins • Build up, maintain and replace tissue • muscles, organs, immune system made of protein • Body breaks down the proteins and makes specialized protein cells • Hemoglobin (carries oxygen, part of our red blood cells) • Used as energy • Yield: 4 calories/gram What does your body do with protein? • Breaks it down into it’s simplest form: amino acid • Amino acids are used for different functions • Humans need 20 amino acids, but the body can only make 11  Complete proteins have all 9 (like meat and milk) • Incomplete is missing 1 or more (like vegetables) Vitamins • Substances found in the foods we eat • Your body cannot make vitamins so we have to obtain them from our diet • Name some of the vitamins you know and what they do… • Vitamin A (eye health) • Vitamin D (bone health • Vitamin C (immune health) • B Vitamins (make energy!) Types of Vitamins • Fat soluble • Stored in fat! (and liver) until your body uses it, a few days-6 months • A, D, E, & K are all fat soluble • Water soluble • Travel through your bloodstream, and excess is expelled through urination • Need to be replaced more often • Help your body grow, develop and stay healthy • 2 main kinds of minerals • Macro-mineral • Trace (micro) Mineral • Of which do you need more? Minerals