Healthy Eating Habits

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Healthy Eating Habits

• By Jeff Stokes

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Carbohydrates

• They are the starches and sugars found in foods
• Potatoes, Pasta, and Bread
• Bodys Main preferred source of energy
• Simple and complex

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Calories

• Calories is the energy that your body gets from
  foods.
• Your body requires a minimum number of set
  calories each day
• If you take in fewer calories than you burn you
  lose weight
• If you take in more calories than you burn you
  gain weight

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Fiber

• Found in the though, stringy part of vegetables,
  fruits, is a special from of complex
  carbohydrate. Although it can not be digested, it
  is used as energy.
• It plays an important part of removing waste.

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Proteins

• Proteins help build strong and healthy bones,
  muscles, tissue, and teeth.
• It also helps make new blood cells, and protect
  important organs, such as your heart, brain,
  lungs, and your skin.

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Fats

• Fats are the most concentrated form of energy,
  they are very thick substances that do not
  dissolve in water.
• Fats in beef, pork, and egg yolks, and dairy
  foods are higher in saturated fat than in fish or
  chicken.
• Unsaturated fat is liquid fat, but has been
  proven to reduce heart disease.

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Cholesterol

• It is a fat like substance produced in the liver
  of all animals, and found in only food of
  animals.
• Beef
• Chicken
• Fish
• These are a few examples of food with cholesterol
  in them.

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Vitamins

• These are compounds that help regulate digestion,
  and metabolism.
• Vitamins are needed in small amounts, so they are
  called micronutrients.
• Vitamins do not have calories in them, but some
  do give you energy.

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Minerals

• They are inorganic substances that the body
  cannot manufacture but acts like workers
  regulating many important body functions.
• One important mineral in the body is calcium it
  helps develop strong bones, and build strong
  teeth.

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The Food Guide Pyramid