Nutrient Source and Significance
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May 14,2013
Jason Roberts Nutrient Source and Significance
The key component to living a full and health life is getting the proper amount of nutrition to be healthy. Nuts, fruits and vegetables, provide our bodies nutrients that keep your body healthy. Deep fried foods, and foods made with many of sugar and processed foods, such as the cakes that are bought in the stores and salty snacks. It has been proven such foods may slow a person’s ability to think properly. When eating carbohydrates choose the brown or green ones those

are the good ones, whole wheat bread, sweet potatoes, brown rice are the good

carbohydrates. White bread, white pasta, white potatoes, and white rice are the bad

carbohydrates. There is an exception to the rule, cauliflower is good. The

carbohydrates should mainly be made up of unrefined complex starchy and fibrous

carbohydrates. There must use self- discipline to Limit things such as sugar and sweets

and try to

eliminate refined carbohydrates altogether from your diet. Your diet should be made up

of unrefined complex carbohydrates.

The molecules that contain hydrocarbons and make up the building blocks

of the structure and function cells are lipids. Lipids include fats, oils, waxes

certain vitamins. When most people think of lipids its negatively because they are

associated with fats. Although some lipids have the classification as fats, lipids are not

all bad. On the contrary, they have a very important function in the body. Lipids are

various compounds are grouped because they are impenetrable in water.

Common lipid are fats, phospholipids, and steroids. Fatty acids and glycerol make up

your fat lipids. Energy is stored in fat cells to help insulate the body, and protect its

organs.

Phospholipids are