Macronutrients

● Protein, carbohydrates, and fat

● Provides calories for energy to maintain life
● Essential for growth of the human body
● Maintains and regulates the body’s metabolism
● Vital for other bodily functions such as cardiovascular output and health
● Can only be obtained through
● Plays a role in hormone production
Proteins Carbs Fats

● Amino acids ● Primarily a source ● Key source of

○ Building of immediate metabolic energy
blocks energy for all of ● Important for the
● Required for your body’s cells intestinal
growth and tissue ● Important role in absorption of
repair glycolysis lipid-soluble
● Vital for immune ● 2 types of carbs: vitamins like A, D,
system function Simple and E, and K
● Hormone and Complex ● Provides taste
enzyme ● Responsible for and satiety
production insulin secretion ● Maintenance of
● Nitrogen Balance ● Each cells structure and
and Protein carbohydrate has integrity
Synthesis a Glycemic Index ● Regulating cell
● Satiety - Feeling ○ Ranking of function
of satisfaction or sugars on ● 3 types
fullness a scale of 1 ○ saturated,
● Rich in iron and to 100 unsaturate
other minerals d, and
● MEAT trans fatty
● DAIRY acids
● FISH
● NUTS & SEEDS
● GRAINS
● LEGUMES