...Carbohydrates are Killing Us Softly Thomas J. Engstrom Western Governors University WGU Student ID# 000529592 Carbohydrates are Killing Us Softly The nutritional dietary consumption of carbohydrates is between 55-75% for the vast majority of the global population as their main source of food intake and energy. And the general populous continues to be misinformed by government agencies regarding what a normal, healthy diet, should be, as well as what a balanced diet looks like. Eating a low-carb high-fat, or ketogenic, diet of high fat, adequate protein and low carbohydrates can provide many health benefits as compared to the alternative of an unhealthy diet. Research suggests that a ketogenic diet builds a healthier body than other diets because it will lead to weight loss, improved blood pressure, and reduce appetites. The ketogenic diet is the foundation for a healthy life. As noted by Dr. Eenfeldt (2014), The ketogenic diet has been referred to by different names, such as: the keto diet, low carb diet, low carb high fat (LCHF), and to some degree the Adkins Diet. The ketogenic diet is a well known diet for being associated with consuming a low amount of carbohydrates, a moderate amount of protein and high amount of fat, where the body produces ketones in the liver to be used as energy (Taubes, 2008). With a diet high in carbohydrates your body will produce glucose and insulin. Glucose is the easiest molecule for your body to convert and use as energy, so it will...
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...Paleo Diet The Paleo diet has taken the internet by storm since it gained popularity two years ago. The ‘cave man’ diet entails mimicking the eating habits of the Paleolithic people thousands of years ago. However, there are still confusions about how to go about with the diet. Here are some of the most asked questions regarding Paleo. 1. What is Paleo Diet? The Paleo diet is a new trend in nutrition wherein it tries to replicate the diet of cavemen in ancient Paleolithic era. They survived through hunting and gathering of food and depended on lean proteins such as fish, poultry, eggs, fruits and vegetables. 2. What kinds of food are included in the list of the Paleo diet? Mainly, the food consumed in...
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...in the world of dieting, yet South Africans are enthralled with the low-carb, high-fat diet despite scientific studies exposing the diet’s flaws. What are some of these flaws and how can one safely ‘bant’? Stellenbosch – Lizandré is a Stellenbosch local and works in business management. Like many women - and men - her age, she has tried her fair share of diets, following the crowd from one fad to the other. Some of these diets actually yield results – though they don’t last most of the time. But perhaps that is why people jump from one fad to the next, when one diets stops working just move on to the next. It’s almost like the dating app, Tinder, where you browse until...
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...Running head: HIGH PROTEIN DIETS HAVE GOOD RESULTS FOR OBESE WOMEN High Protein Diets Have Good Results for Obese Women Currently in the U.S. a high protein/low carbohydrate diet is the number one choice of diet and most weight loss programs are using the same concept. For example Jenny Craig, Lindora, Atkins and Zone are some popular diets that focus on high protein/low carbohydrate. High protein diets consist of 10% – 35% of total calorie intake from protein. These type of diets are popular because they satisfy hunger and the weight comes off rapidly. In additional to satisfying hunger and losing weight these diets were found to have additional health benefits for women. Research suggests that high protein diets have positive results for obese women because they reduces the risk for diabetes type 2, decrease the incidence of cardiovascular disease, and helps women retain muscle mass. One of the major health benefits from a high protein diet is that it can prevent a woman from developing Diabetes type II or if a woman has type II diabetes it can be controlled with the diet. Type II Diabetes is a chronic disease in which there are high levels of glucose in the blood. The body will still make insulin but as time goes by the pancreas will make less and less insulin which makes it harder to keep blood glucose (sugar) under control. This can be acquired by a diet high in carbohydrates and being overweight. Kerksick et al. 2010 stated that “studies which incorporated...
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...information you recorded in iProfile: Recorded intake of protein, carbohydrates, and lipids Which foods in your recorded daily intake provide protein? Which provide carbohydrate? Which provide lipids? lasagna, and baked fish, chikfila burrito, lipids will be sausage. * Review how your recorded protein, carbohydrate, and lipid intake compares with the recommendations of the dietary reference intake (DRI). If your recorded protein-carbohydrate-fat intake was too high or too low, which foods might you add or remove to achieve your goal and keep other nutrients in balance? After reviewing my recorded intake on protein, carbohydrates, and lipids it was determined that my carbohydrates is high 519-750g. My protein intake was also too low. In order to balance my numbers out for my carbohydrake intake as well as protein, removing the breakfast burrito and substituting more eggs in my diet would be more ideal. * Is the protein in each of the foods you ate complete or incomplete, thus combining to become complementary? Why is this fact important? yes each protien that I consumed was in fact complete. in which each source of protein came from an animal. It is important to eat protein in which the source is an animal so that you receive all of the amino acids contained. When not eating protein from an animal source you lose necessary nutrients. * How much of your daily-recommended protein, carbohydrate, and lipid intake did you achieve? Were you surprised by the number...
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...Human Nutrition - PERSONAL DIET EVALUATION PROJECT The purpose of this project is to put theory into practice by examining your food intake and making decisions about your eating habits. To begin the project, keep a record of your food and beverage intake for three typical days. Write down what you eat and drink and the quantity of each food or drink consumed. Keep another record of one day of your activities (24 hour period). Write down your activities and the time spent on each throughout your day. Include time sleeping or sitting quietly – all activities, including sedentary ones, burn calories. Use the website: choosemyplate.gov and the “Super Tracker” feature to analyze your diet and physical activity. Create a profile for yourself and enter your foods and beverages (item and quantity consumed) for analysis. Substitute a food of similar nutrient content if you can’t find a match within the database. Or, enter ingredients separately for mixed food items. For example, a taco might have: a corn shell, beef, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes etc. See the last page of this document for more detailed instructions for setting up your profile within Super Tracker. Enter your 24 hours of activity into the “Activity Tracker” portion of the program. Refer to the Rate Your Plate Grading Guidelines Rubric for specific grading information for this project – attached at the end of this document. The time required to complete the diet records, data analysis, and...
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...There are many fads and lose weight quick diets out there. Each and every one tries to convince you that they are the best, that their new and improved diet will definitely shed those unwanted pounds fast and with very little adjustment to your daily life. There are diets that tell you to only eat a certain color of food. There are diets that advise you to only eat carbohydrates or eat anything but carbohydrates. My favorites are the ones that try to convince you that you can lose weight without exercise. Let’s look at high protein diets. These diets assure you that if you eat only foods high in protein then you will lose weight faster than other diets. While this diet may in fact shed those pounds fast there are serious health risk involved that are not as highly publicized. Before we get to the dangers we will go over some of the supposed benefits and why they seem to work. There are 3 mechanisms your body has that a high protein diet promotes weight loss. One is the ability of a dietary protein to increase energy use. Now this may not be a significant weight loss and also depends on the proportions of animal and vegetable protein your intake. Second is high protein diets seem to raise daily energy and decrease the sleeping metabolic rate. The third is satiety. Protein makes you feel fuller than other nutrients. There are benefits to a high protein diet such as when you are on a high protein diet you tend to add more fish to your diet which gives you good protein and good...
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...Chapter 10 – Nutrients, Physical Activity, and the Body’s Responses Chapter Learning Objectives 10.1 Discuss the short-term and long-term benefits of achieving cardiorespiratory fitness. 10.2 Explain how the fitness pyramid can be incorporated into anyone’s lifestyle. Suggest simple ways to increase activity level throughout the day. 10.3 Explain why it is important for an athlete to maintain blood glucose levels before, during, and after vigorous exercise. 10.4 Describe how an elite athlete’s body uses dietary protein during and after strenuous exercise. 10.5 Discuss which vitamins and minerals are essential for optimal athletic performance and why they are important. Discuss some reasons why female endurance athletes may be vulnerable to iron deficiency 10.6 Evaluate whether conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and other ergogenic aids are useful for obtaining an ideal body composition for sports. Comprehension-Level Multiple-Choice Items 1. Which of the following is not a component of fitness? a. flexibility b. muscle strength c. balance d. muscle endurance e. cardiorespiratory endurance 2. Which of the following enhances flexibility? a. weight training b. aerobic activity c. calisthenics d. stretching 3. Muscles respond to the overload...
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...Carbohydrates Carbohydrates: Good Carbs Guide the Way ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form What Are Carbohydrates? Carbohydrates are found in a wide array of foods—bread, beans, milk, popcorn, potatoes, cookies, spaghetti, soft drinks, corn, and cherry pie. They also come in a variety of forms. The most common and abundant forms are sugars, fibers, and starches. The basic building block of every carbohydrate is a sugar molecule, a simple union of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Starches and fibers are essentially chains of sugar molecules. Some contain hundreds of sugars. Some chains are straight, others branch wildly. Carbohydrates were once grouped into two main categories. Simple carbohydrates included sugars such as fruit sugar (fructose), corn or grape sugar (dextrose or glucose), and table sugar (sucrose). Complex carbohydrates included everything made of three or more linked sugars. Complex carbohydrates were thought to be the healthiest to eat, while simple carbohydrates weren’t so great. It turns out that the picture is more complicated than that. The digestive system handles all carbohydrates in much the same way—it breaks them down (or tries to break them down) into single sugar molecules, since only these are small enough to cross into the bloodstream. It also converts most digestible carbohydrates into glucose (also known as blood sugar), because cells are designed to use this as a universal energy source. Fiber is an exception. It...
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...The Adkin’s Diet How Adkins Works Adkins is a low carb/sugar, high vegetable/protein diet. The goal of the diet is to allow your body to go into ketosis. This occurs when your body stops burning carbs and sugar (glucose) for energy and start burning fat (lipids) reserves. My Personal Experince with Adkins I first earned of the Atkins Diet when I was in my mid-teens (1995ish.) My mother has just been diagnosed a few years prior with type II diabetes and had to start directly on insulin. She heard there was a diet that would allow her to maybe stop taking insulin all together or at least only have to take pills. Being an avid reader and researcher she found the doctor’s book where she learned cutting carbs and sugar from her diet could reduce her dependence on insulin. Being a typical self-absorbed teenager I don’t remember many of the details of her weight loss or what if any medical issues occurred. I do however remember the crazy looks and discussions that occurred when my mom sent me out for fast food and I would ask for a burger without a bun. There are a lot of mouth breathers in the fast food industry, and asking some of these people for this simple request was just too much for them to comprehend. My mom lost over 100 pounds in less than a year, when combined the diet with water aerobics. Because there was way less sugary and carb rich foods in the house I lost a lot of weight also. Looking back at pictures of that time both my mom and I never looked...
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...provide calories and energy in a diet, nutrients are needed for growth, metabolism and for other body functions. As “macro” means large, macronutrients are the nutrients needed in large amounts, There are three different types of macronutrients; carbohydrates which is made up of a large group of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissues, these are included in starch, sugars and cellulose. Protein is the digestion to amino acids and has relationships with muscle mass; protein also affects the activity and metabolic rates. Lipids are the third main class of macronutrients needed in human nutrition. Lipids are found primarily in meats, and dairy foods. They are a class of organic compounds that are fatty acids. Micronutrients are different from macronutrients (like carbohydrates, proteins and fat) they are only necessary in tiny amounts. Nevertheless micronutrients are essential for good health, if you have a micronutrient deficiencies it can cause serious health problems. Micronutrient includes a lot of dietary minerals such as zinc and iodine these are necessary for the healthy functioning of your body’s system, from bone growth to brain function. Micronutrients are commonly known as “vitamins” the vitamins they hold are vitamin A, C, D, and K. Making sure that you eat these vitamins in a healthy balanced diet is really important as it can prevent you from any serious health issues. There are many characteristics of nutrients. Carbohydrates provide energy for the body...
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...EATING FOR WELLNESS Class Activity 1 – Why Do I Eat? I eat because I’m hungry. I eat because I want to increase my level of physical activity. I eat because I need to survive. Eating Trends Past: * Agricultural; manual labor * More fruits, vegetables, and grains eaten * Choices limited to what can be produced by the individual Present: * High-tech; fast-paced * Dual career families and packaged and processed foods (more fats, sugars, and salts * More eating out; more choices; poorer selections * Choices predicated on convenience, time and cost efficacy Eating Trends Nutrition and dietary habits have implications for each of the dimensions of wellness: * Physical – physiological nourishment; growth * Emotional – as a reward; soothe feelings; response to stress * Social – events, gatherings, and family interaction * Intellectual – understanding dietary principles and food contents; informed consumerism * Spiritual – rituals; searching for inner truth/direction * Environmental – food and crop quality; protection of the food chain * Occupational – business contacts; coffee breaks; income affecting food selections Eating Trends * General shift away from meals to snacks, at-home to away-from-home * On any given day in the U.S., 25% of the adult population visits a fast food restaurant * Americans now spend more on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software...
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...questions. Your response to each question should be 75 to 100 words. |What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? | |Nutrition is nourishment or aliment, is the supply of materials and food, required by organisms and cells to stay alive. In | |science and human medicine, nutrition is the science or practice of consuming and utilizing foods. Nutrition as it applies to our| |daily lives means that we take in what we need to maintain our body’s healthy state. Nutrition has become an important word. | | | |What is the connection between nutrition and health? | | | |You are what you eat comes to mind. Well that saying is still true. If you stick to a healthy diet full of vitamins and minerals,| |your body reflects it. You feel healthy, energized, and just all-around great. However, people who limit their diet to junk foods| |will undoubtedly suffer the consequences of not giving their bodies what they need to thrive. The result is not only fatigue and | |low energy, but poor health as well. ...
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...to 100 words. 1. What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? | “As molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics advance, nutrition has become more focused on the steps of biochemical sequences through which substances inside us and other living organisms are transformed from one form to another - metabolism and metabolic pathways” (Bellavia, 2013) The focus of Nutrition is on diseases, how to prevent or try to slow down conditions or problems by using a healthy diet. Nutrition also is involved in figuring out how certain diseases, or cancers may be caused by environmental factors, poor diet as with a people with malnutrition, and allergies to food. Nutrition is so important that major food manufactures employ scientists and nutritionists to help them educate and research. | 2. What is the connection between nutrition and health? | Nutrition and health are dependent on one another. Doctors will trace many emotional and physical problems to diet and lack of vitamins and minerals. Our primary source of energy is food with vitamins and supplements as substitutes. Everyone tries to have a well balanced diet to have a long health life, one that decreases the chance of acquiring a disease, or even help us recover when we are sick. In contrast, a sedentary lifestyle and poor chose of foods can cut our life span and set us up for a plethora of diseases and deformities. Our brain depends on carbohydrates, fatty acids, and vitamin B-12 in order to...
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...your overall health. In this summary the writer will address several points that were indicated though a food journal that was recorded for 3 days. Protein, Carbohydrates, and Lipids Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins make up the three macronutrients that provide energy for your body. My diet included many foods that contained protein. Some of those foods are yogurt, peanut butter crackers, orange juice, tilapia(fish), cheese grits, baked beans, cereal, ramen noodles, chicken alfredo, chicken tenders, salad, chicken nuggets, fries, lasagna, and soft tacos. The fish contained the most protein totaling 22g of protein in one serving. My diet contained many foods that contained carbohydrates. Some of these foods are yogurt, peanut butter crackers, orange juice, cheese grits, baked beans, cereal, orange sections, ramen noodles, chicken alfredo, cranberry juice, chicken tenders, salad, chicken nuggets, lasagna, and soft tacos. The lasagna contained the most carbs totaling 43g of carbs. Lastly, my diet contained several foods that contained lipids(fats). Some of these foods are peanut butter crackers, cheese grits, baked beans, ramen noodles, chicken alfredo, chicken tenders, salad, chicken nuggets, fries, lasagna, and soft tacos. The soft tacos contained the most lipids totaling 18g. Proteins must be included in your diet to maintain balanced nutrition. There are complete proteins and incomplete proteins. These different types of proteins are...
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