Posted by admin on October 25, 2009
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Carbohydrates are one of the three macronutrients needed by our bodies as nutriment. They are the main source of energy for the body which can use them either for immediate energy, or, if not consumed immediately, it can store them for future needs of energy converting them in to fat.
Carbs can be divided in two main groups: simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates.
Simple Carbohydrates
Simple carbohydrates are basically little molecules made up of one or two sugar units. The molecules made of one sugar unit are called “monosaccharide”(which means single sugar), while the ones made of two sugar units are called “disaccharides”( or two sugars). WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by admin on October 24, 2009
Introduction
When I decided to write this introduction to nutrition I was challenged by quite an issue: I found it difficult to set my mind on the best way to describe this crucial health-building (or health-disrupting) process. Basically everyone knows, more or less instinctively, what nutrition is, so the challenge I faced not only evolved around how to enlighten people about the possible benefits a balanced nutrition can deliver or, for instance, which problems one can expect to experience if the nutritional process is not ‘balanced’ or is somehow defective, but I found that the real challenge here was to help people reach the same sort of nutritional ‘consciousness’ that personally helped me so much during these last years.
I decided that a good start could be to give a general description of what nutrition is, which are the main substances involved in nutrition, and to conclude by giving a very general (for the moment) overview about how the human body processes and reacts to such substances. I will give more detailed descriptions about all of nutrition’s key elements in further articles but, for the moment, let me properly define what I personally mean whit the word ‘nutrition’ when related to the ‘Growing-Fit’ project. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
