1. Healthy Eating: Carbohydrates
Ms. Singarajah

2. Introduction to Nutrients:
Nutrients are essential in providing everyone with energy, promoting growth and development and help regulate body processes.
Everyone needs the same nutrients but not necessarily in the same amounts:
Amount of nutrients needed depends on the age, body size, sex, and genetic heritage of the individual

3. What Nutrients Do: Provide Energy:
Nutrients in food provide our body with the fuel the body uses to carry on all its day to day activities. Without food we would have no energy.
Promote Growth and Development:
Nutrients allow our body to grow, develop and repair itself.
Regulate body processes:
Each nutrient plays a specific role in the body and a lack of one nutrient may cause some of the body’s functions to stop working properly.

4. Nutrients Divide into:
Macronutrients:
Carbohydrates
Protein
Fats
Micronutrients:
Vitamins
Minerals

5. Carbohydrates Continued:
Their main function is to provide the body with fuel which is needed for physical activity, brain function and operation of the organs
The digestive system changes carbohydrates into glucose, also known as blood sugar.
Some glucose is used for energy and the rest is stored in the liver and muscles for later use.
The body regulates the level of glucose in the blood.

6. Carbohydrates: Carbohydrates are grouped into two categories
Simple Carbohydrates
Complex Carbohydrates

7. Carbohydrates continued:
Simple Carbohydrates
Are broken down quickly by the body to be used as energy
Are sugars that are found in fruits, vegetables and milk
Simple sugars are added to processed and refined foods such as candy, table sugar and soft drinks.

8. Carbohydrates Continued:
Complex Carbohydrates
Are made up of sugar molecules that are strung together in long complex chains
Are found in whole-grain breads and cereals
Are found in starchy vegetables and legumes such as peas, beans