Animal Nutrition: Distinguish Macronutrients and Micronutrients

Carbohydrates, proteins and lipids are known as macronutrients as the body needs masses of these nutrient components in order to carry out the bodies’ essential functions.

Macronutrients are an important part of your daily intake since they provide the body with calories and energy. These nutrients are needed for metabolism and growth of the body. The three macronutrients are carbohydrates, protein, and fat (McKinley Health Center, 2008). It is important to that macronutrient intake be within the recommended intake range. Having a diet that consists of too much or too little of a macronutrient could be harmful to the body. If you eat too many macronutrients, you could gain fat and if you eat too little macronutrients you could lose healthy fat, which would cause the body to break down. If you consistently eat too little protein, carbohydrates, or lipids, the body would be malnourished, which could have devastating effects on your health.

Carbohydrates, fats and proteins are three energy-yielding nutrients. They can also be called macronutrients. Carbohydrates are energy-yielding nutrients because they provide four kilocalories per gram. Carbohydrates can include starch and sugar. Fats or lipids can provide nine kilocalories per gram. They are a form of energy that is concentrated. Proteins provide four kilocalories per gram. When someone eats these three macronutrients and they do not use energy right away, it is stored as fat in the body. If someone is very active, they will use the macronutrients as their energy. If someone takes in an insufficient amount of protein, the person will store it but will then make the person lose body weight because it

Macronutrients consists of carbohydrates, proteins and fats which are our main source of energy, fats contain 9 calories per gram, however carbohydrates and protein each containing 4 calories per gram.

Your body needs five nutrients to survive: protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Plants can be a great source of all of these, but it is important to know which plants or plant parts are edible.

The few nutrients listed first are the ones we eat too many off such as, fat cholesterol and sodium, you should limit those nutrients , they can increase cancer, heart disease and high blood pressure and unfortunately the ones we need the most we get little to nothing of such as vitamins A,C and calcium, iron, fiber.

The five micronutrients are: vitamin A, zinc, iodine, calcium, and iron. For people to thrive, they must have enough intake of these micronutrients to fulfill their physiological needs (Skolnik, 2016). When this does not happen, undernutrition results. Being undernourished greatly increases the risk of illness and is associated with decreased intellectual capacity (Skolnik, 2016).

All these processes are needed for human life to survive, thrive and continue the human race. Nutrition can be in different forms, animals (humans) get their nutrition through food, physically eating, including carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals and fibre. Plants have a different kind of way they get their nutrition, through photosynthesis, getting their energy from the sun and other nutrients through the soil.

When analyzing the nutrition facts label, one must consider the following key nutrients: calories, total fat, sodium, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and other minerals. Calories provide energy to the human body, without them, majors organs would not be able to do work. One of the three macronutrients, fat functions as a source of current and long-term energy. Sodium, an important nutrient to be consumed daily, helps the body maintain blood pressure, stabilize water imbalances and perform daily functions. Unlike cholesterol, sodium is not produced in sufficient quantities on its own. Another energy source, Carbohydrates is broken down by the enzyme amylase in digestion into glucose, providing the body with energy. Comprised of amino acids, protein can function as an enzyme, an energy source and repair mechanism.

In order for our bodies to function properly, we need to consume macro- and micronutrients. Carbohydrates are major macronutrients. In order to utilise Carbohydrates, our body needs to digest them. This happens in a sequence of events.

is broken down into macro and micro nutrients which in turn are used in different

The vitamins and minerals are substances found in our daily diet foods that promote healthy and balanced development of our body and are also called micronutrients because they are needed in small amounts thereof to achieve that function. Most essential vitamins can not be synthesized (produced) by the body, so it can obtain through the balanced intake of vitamins contained in natural foods.

There are seven classes of nutrients such as: carbohydrate, proteins, minerals, vitamins, water, roughages(fibers) and fat. Carbohydrate: are human and animals main source of energy. Proteins: essential for growth, repair of muscles and other body tissues. minerals: Michael Demetrius defined minerals as

Nutrients are vital substances that enable the proper functioning of the body, its proper growth and development. They are in the food. Appropriate processes, such as digestion, make these ingredients after ingestion of food can be absorbed by the body. The most important nutrients are: sugars (carbohydrates), fats, protein, vitamins, minerals, water.

Micro- vitamins (organic compounds with carbon)C,D,K,E, minerals (inorganic compound i.e.:CA, iron, potassium, mg, na )