To meet your body's regular nutritional needs, you should consume:
-a wide variety of nutritious foods.
-water on a daily basis.
-enough kilojoules for energy, with carbohydrates as the preferred source.
-essential fatty acids from foods such as oily fish, nuts, avocado.
-adequate protein for cell maintenance and repair.
Nutrients are classified as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins or minerals. Water and dietary fibre are also essential. Each nutrient has specific functions and is made available to the body tissues through the processes of digestion and absorption.
How well foods are digested and their nutrients absorbed can be influenced in several ways. For example, infections, particularly those that accelerate the passage of food through the digestive system, can reduce the body's capacity to absorb nutrients and accelerate the loss of water and body salts. The combination of foods eaten can also affect digestion and absorption. Iron from animal sources is usually well absorbed, but iron in plants is generally not, because of the presence of natural compounds, such as phytates in cereals and tannins in tea, that inhibit iron absorption. Other factors, such as an increased vitamin C intake, can enhance the absorption of iron from plant sources. Excessive dietary fibre can interfere with the absorption of some nutrients.
Nutrient requirements vary between individuals according to, for example, age, gender, level of activity and health. The ways in which people meet these requirements also vary. There is no ideal or universal dietary pattern and the body is wonderfully adaptive. From arctic tundra to tropical forest, and from big cities to remote islands, various populations demonstrate that human nutritional needs can be met by diverse ranges of foodstuffs and dietary habits.
1 EAT A DIET OF WHOLE FOODS
-Eating whole foods is the best way to ensure you're covering the majority of your micronutrient issues. Natural, whole foods have sustained life on this planet since the dawn of time. It's a no-brainer that they should make up the bulk of your food intake.
2 DETERMINE YOUR CALORIC REQUIREMENTS
-When deciding how many calories you need per day, a good rule of thumb is to take your total body weight in pounds and tack a zero on to the back of it to determine your basal metabolic rate (BMR), or how many calories your body will burn at rest.
3 BALANCE OUT YOUR MACROS
-While there are different schools of thought for hard-training athletes, a general rule is to consume 8 grams of carbohydrates per kilogram of body weight and 2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight, with fat filling in the rest to meet your caloric targets.
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In Carbohydrates
Dietary fats and oils
Proteins
Vitamins
Minerals.
To meet your body's regular nutritional needs, you should consume:
-a wide variety of nutritious foods.
-water on a daily basis.
-enough kilojoules for energy, with carbohydrates as the preferred source.
-essential fatty acids from foods such as oily fish, nuts, avocado.
-adequate protein for cell maintenance and repair.
Nutrients are classified as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins or minerals. Water and dietary fibre are also essential. Each nutrient has specific functions and is made available to the body tissues through the processes of digestion and absorption.
How well foods are digested and their nutrients absorbed can be influenced in several ways. For example, infections, particularly those that accelerate the passage of food through the digestive system, can reduce the body's capacity to absorb nutrients and accelerate the loss of water and body salts. The combination of foods eaten can also affect digestion and absorption. Iron from animal sources is usually well absorbed, but iron in plants is generally not, because of the presence of natural compounds, such as phytates in cereals and tannins in tea, that inhibit iron absorption. Other factors, such as an increased vitamin C intake, can enhance the absorption of iron from plant sources. Excessive dietary fibre can interfere with the absorption of some nutrients.
Nutrient requirements vary between individuals according to, for example, age, gender, level of activity and health. The ways in which people meet these requirements also vary. There is no ideal or universal dietary pattern and the body is wonderfully adaptive. From arctic tundra to tropical forest, and from big cities to remote islands, various populations demonstrate that human nutritional needs can be met by diverse ranges of foodstuffs and dietary habits.
1 EAT A DIET OF WHOLE FOODS
-Eating whole foods is the best way to ensure you're covering the majority of your micronutrient issues. Natural, whole foods have sustained life on this planet since the dawn of time. It's a no-brainer that they should make up the bulk of your food intake.
2 DETERMINE YOUR CALORIC REQUIREMENTS
-When deciding how many calories you need per day, a good rule of thumb is to take your total body weight in pounds and tack a zero on to the back of it to determine your basal metabolic rate (BMR), or how many calories your body will burn at rest.
3 BALANCE OUT YOUR MACROS
-While there are different schools of thought for hard-training athletes, a general rule is to consume 8 grams of carbohydrates per kilogram of body weight and 2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight, with fat filling in the rest to meet your caloric targets.
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