Assignment 1 Cereal Lab Answers

Consuming too many carbs can lead to low other nutrient intake, excess energy, dental carries, weight gain and hyperglycemia.

When digested, carbohydrates turn into glucose, which the body uses as fuel. Unused glucose is stored as glycogen, which the body uses once the available glucose is burned. If you eat more than your body can burn, the extra glucose turns into fat. Eating refined sugars and processed starches or “bad” carbs can cause a spike in insulin levels, suppressing glucagon, which is a hormone necessary for burning fat. The more you eat carbohydrates, the more fat you accumulate.

Some say breakfast really isn’t that important. Stronglifts.com states that, breakfast is not healthier people who don’t eat breakfast are usually the ones who don’t exercise and grab a doughnut on their way to work, eat junk food at noon and a big dinner in front of the TV. This can be true but, some other breakfast foods can be unhealthy also not just a doughnut. Daron Taylor claims that, “If English citizens suddenly began to eat a traditional English breakfast every day, one that comes in at a whopping 855 calories with over 2,000 grams of sodium, the United Kingdom would most likely be facing a monumental national health crisis. The author doesn’t explain why, breakfast is truly the most important meal of the day. NPR’s Allison Aubrey claims that “a breakfast of just this kind of sugary cereal is not the way to start the day.” What the author fails to consider is that some people don’t have the money to go eat a healthy breakfast each day.

It’s important for people to have a good well balanced diet to enable them to get the right nutrition’s they need to stay fit and healthy.

For carbohydrates, consuming the right amount of carbs will give you energy to complete tasks such as eating and exercising. An overconsumption of carbs will lead to multiple, deadly and life threatening diseases such as type 2 diabetes. This is because when a person overeats on carbohydrates, their body will produce excess insulin. Such insulin overproduction can overwhelm their body and cause serious irregularities in insulin production.

The plate has to have nutrition sources such as, vegetables, fruits, grains, meet and beans, dairy products, fats and water.

The morning meal usually breaks a fast time without food that has lasted from 8 to 12 hours while you sleep. Since your last meal or snack, your body’s supply of blood sugar (glucose) has dropped to a low point. The body needs desires food to produce the glucose that is necessary to keep you going. Without breakfast, some people become less able to do physical work in the late morning hours and some students do not perform well in the classroom.

I believe if you eat carbs in moderation they will not affect you in a bad way. However, most people overeat and do not pay attention to what they eat. The only way carbs will affect someone in a negative way is by overeating, eating the wrong carbs or if you have a certain body type and your body just does not use them the right way. Some people just never know when to stop eating. They have 3 or more plates of food full of starches and sugar. In this day and age, children, teenagers, and adults are becoming obese from eating very wrongly. I have never seen someone’s refrigerator with just pizza and frozen meals, but that is what this generation has grown accustomed to. There are 3 body types, Mesomorph, Ectomorph, and Endomorph. When endomorphs

Carbohydrates are one of three macronutrients. They are an important energy source, specifically for the brain and the spinal cord. Carbs tend to be given a bad image causing many people to avoid them. Doing this can lead to possible health problems if you do not consume the accurate amount of carbohydrates on a daily basis. There are many positive health benefits to making sure we consume enough carbohydrates as well as negative effects if we do not consume enough good carbs each day.

If a person constantly eats too little proteins they can become susceptible to disease, it can cause a person to develop anemia, dry skin can develop and in women their bones can become brittle. If a person does not have enough carbohydrates in their diet they can develop malnutrition which is also called lack of calories. If a person does not have enough lipids in their diet it can also cause serious health risks. Fat provides nutrients for the body and supports the body’s basic function. Lack of this macronutrient can cause problems with a person’s immune system, skin and vision.

Your body needs food at some point in the day as a source of energy, skipping breakfast only prolongs that need to unhealthy standards. Using junk food as a substitute for breakfast is what slows down your metabolism while adding those extra calories.

Skipping breakfast for weight can lead to more serious problems such as eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. Most common in college students.

Research published in the Journal of Frontiers of Human Nueroscience shows that eating breakfast helps restore glycogen and stabilizes levels of insulin .If you don’t replenish your glucose stores in the morning,it’ll leave you feeling overly hungry,cranky,and fatigued.(yes,being hangry is a health problem)”These low blood-sugar symptoms are the first thing you are likely to experience from fasting all night long” Axe says.

It is advisable to create a general guide for weight maintenance. When developing a food plan, the nutrient balance should consist of 45 – 65% carbohydrates, 10 -35% proteins, and less than or equal to 25% fats. The distribution balance is also a key aspect to weight management. The distribution balance requires caloric intake spread throughout the day. Identifying problem times and planning healthy snacks for these times is necessary to maintain distribution balance.

​One of the three main types of diets is the balanced diet. Many people talk about a balanced diet, but the question that pops up in their mind is “ What exactly is a balanced diet?”. Basically its means “getting a wide variety of the right foods into your diet”(A Balanced