Nutrition and Food Pyramid

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Nutrition and Food Pyramid
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Old Food Pyramid
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New Food Pyramid
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Carbohydrates

• These are sugar and starches
• Sugars naturally found in fruits, vegetables and
  milk
• Glucose/glycogen
• Excellent source of energy
• There are two different types of carbohydrates
  
• simple refined foods, table sugar etc
• complex oats, grains, wheat

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Fats

• Nutrient with highest energy content
• Unsaturated good fat
• neurons
• saturated fats- bad fat
• cholesterol

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Protein

• An organic compound made of amino acids
• 22 total amino acids
• 13 are made in the body
• 9 MUST come from food!!!
• Complete proteins- animal sources have all 9
  amino acids
• Incomplete proteins- veggies, nuts , seeds lack
  one or two incomplete proteins

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Mission Nutrition

• http//kidshealth.org/kid/closet/games/game_nutrit
  ion.html

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Reading Food Labels

• http//kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/labels
  .html

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