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ShareProtein Foods in Your Diet
Protein foods in your diet are important because this is how you provide the amino acids that your body requires. The amino acids that make up protein are responsible for your overall structure, hormonal balances, our immune system, and for the basic transportation of proteins in your body. This smallest group of a protein (the amino acids) join together to make up the primary protein structures: peptides and peptide chains. The protein foods in your diet are broken down and digested into peptides and amino acids. The protein foods in
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ShareFats in Your Diet
Fats in your diet are a very important source of energy for your body. The fats in your diet are the most energy dense of the three macronutrients (Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fat). The fats in your diet play very important roles in: the manufacturing of hormones, the balance of those hormones, the formation of our brain and central nervous system, and the transportation of fat soluble vitamins throughout our body. The fat soluble vitamins include: A, D, E, and K.
Fats in your diet are also important because your body can
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ShareCarbohydrates Foods in Your Diet
Carbohydrates foods in your diet are essential for life. Your body’s blood and brain need a constant source of glucose because they can not produce the glucose themselves. The carbohydrates foods in your diet supply the needed glucose to both. If you decide that you are going to ignore good nutrition and decrease the carbohydrates foods in your diet, your body will start to metabolize lean mass to provide the needed glucose to all of your cells. This metabolism of lean mass is not healthy to your body; and many
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ShareFat Metabolism
Fat metabolism takes place during the three main Energy Transfer Process which are designed to break down this macronutrient’s (along with carbohydrates and proteins) chemical bonds to form ATP. Although most people have a negative connotation of fats, they are extremely important for good health and in achieving maximum performance. Fats play many roles in our bodies such as: regulation of hormones, transport vitamins and minerals through the body, are structurally important (along with triglycerides) in our plasma, and they are our largest source of energy in the body.
Our body is
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ShareCarbohydrate Metabolism
Carbohydrate Metabolism is an important role in producing ATP, along with the other macronutreints (fats and proteins). Carbohydrate metabolism takes place during the three main Energy Transfer Process which are designed to break down this macronutrient’s (along with fats and proteins) chemical bonds to form ATP. Carbohydrates are very important for good nutrition in your diet. They are our bodies fastest macronutrient source of energy, but they are stored in our body in very limited quantities. A typical 150 pound person may have about 1.1 pounds of stored glucose in their
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ShareGood Nutrition and Nutritional Science
Good nutrition means having a basic understanding of how carbohydrates, vitamins, fats, minerals, etc, all interact with your cells. When we talk about good nutrition we must also have an understanding of the way our body works at the cellular level, and to have an understanding of cell structure and function as it relates to nutrition. To have good nutrition you should have a basic understanding of how carbohydrates, vitamins, fats, minerals, etc., all interact with your cells. How this interaction at the cellular level turns into energy
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ShareThe Macronutrients: Carbohydrates, Protein, and Fat
As athletes we are constantly asking ourselves about The Macronutrients: Carbohydrates, Protein, and Fat, the role they play in our diets and how they affect our body during athletic performance. I will try to take some of the mysteries away from Carbohydrates, Protein, and Fat with some simple explanations of each.
The Food Pyramid
Usually when we are talking about Carbohydrates, Protein, and Fat we are talking about “what to eat” or basically plain old food. Food is thought of as the things we eat that
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