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Sugars that provide the body with energy Your body can break them down quickly Provide your body with energy Provide your body with energy 2 groups: -simple (fructose, sucrose and lactose) -complex (fibre and starches) Found in breads, pastas, candy, sodas, etc.

Component in food Fruits and vegetables, have almost none Nuts, oils, butter, and beef are examples Important part of a healthy diet Helps people feel satisfied Increases the risk of heart disease Helps to absorb some vitamins

3 Major types: -Unsaturated fats (Olive oil and salmon) -Saturated fats (Butter and cheese) -Trans fats (Margarine and snack foods) Helps a kid's body grow and develop

Healthy foods are actually great sources We eat it without even knowing it Benefits: -Protects against gut cancers -Lowers cholesterol Best sources are: -Apples-Oranges

Best sources: -Beef-Poultry Helps to build cardiac muscle. Protects you from disease: -Running -Just hanging out, -Moving your legs, -Moving your lungs,

Everyone needs it Helps you fight off illness Main ingredient in perspiration Lots of foods contain it Fruit and vegetables contain it Benefits: -Helps to digest your food -Gets rid of waste Awfully refreshing and has no calories

You need to drink it every day Drink: -with meals -when thirsty -when it's warm -when you're exercising Dehydration keeps you from being fast It can also make you sick

This vitamin is important keeping body tissues. It helps you heal from cuts, wounds Vitamin prevents you from getting sick. Citrus, oranges, cantelope are rich in vitamin

One of fat soluble vitamins Helps body make protein Not getting enough vitamin cause blood clotting Without vitamin K: -blood takes a long time to clot -blood takes a long time to clot Can cause excessive blood loss Increase risk of death from injuries Found mostly in vegetables: -spinach and broccoli

Most important lipid soluble antioxidant Protects cell membranes from oxidation Removes the free radical intermediates Vitamin B12 relationship to the disease pernicious anemia. Disease destroys parietal cells in stomach.

The original point of vitamins is ester. Vitamin does not function in the retina. Linked to a family of shaped molecules. All forms have a beta-ionoge ring. Essential for vitamin activity. Related to the retina of the eye.

Vitamins are found in food we eat There are two types of vitamins Fat soluble Water soluble When you eat foods with vitamins They get stored in your fat tissues Soluble vitamins are stored in your body