Hi 😊  How are you? It's another blog regarding nutrition. I'm so excited to share this with you. Your body is like a machine, it needs to have fuel to function. So where do you get your energy? That would be carbohydrates, protein and fats. So let's meet them 😊 First, we will meet the famous "kcalories"  ENERGY MEASURED IN kCalories *Energy is expressed in 1000 calorie meter metric units known as kilocalories (shortened to kcalories, but commonly called calories).  Calories tiny units of energy so small that a single apple can provide tens of thousands of them.The energy released from carbohydrate, fat and protein.* ENERGY FROM FOODS *The amount of energy a food provides depends on how much carbohydrate, fat, and protein it contains. When completely broken down in the body, a gram of  Carbohydrate yields about 4 calories of energy, a gram of protein also yield 4 kcalories and a gram of fat yield 9 kcal. One other substance contributes energy - alcohol. Alcohol, ...

 Hi 👋 ❤️beautiful and wonderful people and that's   ❤️ you❤️ Amazingly your body is composed of food that you eat. You are what you eat. Your nutrients in the body are the same in foods. Here's the reason why NUTRIENTS IN FOODS AND THE BODY NUTRIENTS COMPOSITION OF FOODS Let's first talk about your foods. Look at your tomato, it is round, colour varies from green to red. * Chemical analysis of food such as a tomato shows that is composed primarily of water (95%). Most of the solid material are carbohydrate🍞, lipids🥑, and proteins🍗. If you could remove these materials, you would find a tiny residue of vitamins, minerals and another compound. The six classes of nutrients - a substance the body uses for the growth, maintenance, and repair of its tissues.*  NUTRIENT COMPOSITION OF THE BODY Now let's talk about your body anatomically. * The human body is made of a compound similar to those found in foods- mostly water (60%) and some fat (12-21% for young m...

Welcome to the beautiful world of Nutrition and Diet. You've eaten and enjoyed your meal yesterday, today and for the next few days ahead. Every meal provides you with pleasure. The time when you eat at your house, cooked by you or someone you love, with your favourite foods. It gives the satisfaction of taste and the feeling of satiety with the presence and good conversation of your favourite people. It is the best experience that we crave most of the time, especially when we celebrate an occasion. Every individual food that we grab in the grocery store or public market has a specific nutrient that can support having a healthy body to be more productive or harm our body in the future, which can promote diet and lifestyle disease later in our life. Let's begin with an understanding of our food choices. When we are mindful in our food choices, we can gain control of our behavior and develop solutions or strategies to enjoy food while not jeopardizing our health.  10 FOOD CHOICES...