Healthy Eating: Understanding Foods and our Body

By My Ebook Publishing House

Healthy Eating is a step-by-step blueprint to recovering your health - it not only gives you the perfect framework and principles to build a healthy diet around, it also surpasses that, going on to show you what a healthy lifestyle actually looks like.
Healthy Eating promotes many neurological, psychological, emotional and physical benefits that aren’t only beneficial for the long-run but visible and beneficial for the short-run.
Not only does this book give you all the basics about nutrition in a concise manner, it also delves deep into the reasons why you should follow the individual principles. You get a complete overview of the most important hormones in play and how the food you eat - and your livestyle overall - affects them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: My Ebook Publishing House
• Release date: May 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311164650

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Healthy Eating

Understanding Foods and our Body

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CONTENT

1. The energetic balance of the human body

2. Proteins, lipids and carbohydrates

3. The correct alimentation

4. The alimentation of a healthy person

5. The fats in our alimentation

6. The child’s alimentation

7. How to calculate calories

8. Recommendations for obesity

9. The physical education

1. The energetic balance of the human body

The provision of energy to the human body is a vital function, without which breathing, the activity of the heart, of the brain, the liver, the muscular activity, the growth function, reproduction and so on wouldn’t be possible. This energy is produced as a result of the burning in the human body of some substances called circulating. They are represented by monosaccharides, fatty acids and amino acids, substances that come from viands, where they are found in the form of the nutritious factors called carbohydrates, lipids and protein. The monosaccharides (glucose, fructose) are found as such, or in the shape of polysaccharides (starch). The fatty acids come from lipids, and the amino acids, from protein.

For the carbohydrates, lipids and protein to transform in the respective substances, necessary for the production of energy, they are subjected to the digestion and body absorption processes, their burning being produced in the liver, the muscles, the adipose tissue and so on. The energy production occurs particularly on the strength of carbohydrates and lipids, the protein having a special part in growth and reproduction.

In the case of the total lack of use of the created energy, and this phenomenon occurs when the physical effort of the man is