Nutrition is not just about eating healthy but having a healthy eating lifestyle and understanding what you are putting in your body. We must never forget that everything you put in you body is a product of how healthy you are and that your food is your fuel, if your fuel is not good your body won't function properly.
Calories
noun
A unit of heat energy, equivalent to the energy required to raise the temperature of one thousand grams of water by 1 °C, but more commonly known as the unit of food energy
Example: I ate too many calories today, I am not proud of myself.
fr: Calories
Carbohydrates
Noun
Any of a large group of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissues and including sugars, starch, and cellulose. They contain hydrogen and oxygen in the same ratio as water (2:1) and typically can be broken down to release energy in the animal body.
Example: Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
fr: Glucides
Dietary Supplements
Phrase
Fats
Noun
Fats are nutrients that give you energy. Fats have 9 calories in each gram. Fats help in the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. Fats are either saturated or unsaturated, and most foods with fat have both types. But usually there is more of one kind of fat than the other.
Example: Nuts and grass-seeds contained a good supply of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
fr: Gras
Fiber
Noun
A thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed.
Example: Chia seeds are a very good and high source of fiber. They are great for someone that wants to loss weight.
fr: Fibre
Protein
Noun
Any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds that consist of large molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids and are an essential part of all living organisms, especially as structural components of body tissues such as muscle, hair, collagen, etc., and as enzymes and antibodies.
Example: To build more muscle you need a high protein diet.
