Monday, October 26, 2009

Period 8 Blog 9 Macronutrients Explained



Everything you eat can be classified into three primary macro nutrient categories. You have probably heard of them before they are, Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats. It is extremely important for a number of reasons that we will go into in the near future that you have a balance of each macro nutrient at every meal that you eat. Examples of the types of food for each macro nutrient are below.

Carbohydrates: Bread, Pasta, Rice, Cookies, Cakes, Cereals, Grains, Vegetables, and Fruits

Proteins: Meat, Poultry, Eggs, Fish, seafood, Peanut butter, Tofu, Powders

Fats: Oils, Nuts, Seeds, dressing

For this weeks blog I want you to look at your blog from last week and tell me if your breakfast has each of the macro nutrients in it. If it does great! You are doing your body a great service. If not, tell me what macro nutrients you are missing and what you could eat to balance out your breakfast.

29 comments:

  1. I have cereal every morning and an egg with the oil on the pan. i dont know if the oil to cook the egg is an acception but its vegetable oil.



    Juan-Felipe Pataquiva

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  2. I have carbohydrates from the cereal, and i think that milk has protean, but i don't really have a fat. i could include something like cheese i guess.
    Kayla steinberg

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  3. My breakfast (bread+butter) has carbohydrates and fats in it. I could also eat an egg for protein to balance out my breakfast.

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  4. My breakfast has mainly carbohydrates. I could incorporate protein into my breakfast by eating eggs and I could incorporate fats by eating whole grain tost with nuts.

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  5. my breakfast has carboyhydrates and i dont know what cream cheese is
    -Jordan Weissberg

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  6. it is missing every single macro nutrient besides carbs (cereal and bagel)

    i could have eggs and granola to balance it out

    nina lish

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  7. I need more protein, so I could have an egg. I also need more fats, so I could also have some nuts. I've got carbs down.


    Landon F.

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  8. my breakfast includes a waffle which has carbs and im not sure about milk. it needs fat and protein so i could have an egg and some nuts

    wendy sun

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  9. i need more protein in my daily breakfast.

    -bryce andrukitis

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  10. I get plenty of carbs and protein, but i could have some nuts/seeds to improve my fats.
    Harrison Blackman

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  11. I get alot of food, its usually 2 PB sandwichs, 2 bowls of cereal and a apple with water, so thats carbs and protein in my sandwiches and cereal, protein from the PB and milk, fats from the nuts in the PB and carbs from my apple

    ---Danny Kyung---------

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  12. My breakfast has mostly carbohydrates from the cereal. I could include protein in eggs and fats in some mixed nuts.

    -Grant Fox

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  13. i either have a bagel with cream cheese or cereal, they both have fat and carbs but I should probably eat eggs too


    Rohan Anthony

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  14. my breakfest is all protein with eggs and bacon. i could add carbs by eating a banana
    - brian fantozzi

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  15. My breakfast is pretty much carbohydrates from the cereal. I could eat an egg for protein and some nuts for fats.

    -aishwariya c.

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  16. Theo
    Cereal-carbohydrates, milk-dairy

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  17. In my breakfast, carbohydrates would come from the cereal and proteins would come from the hard-boiled egg. I could eat some peanuts to for fats


    - Austin Feng

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  18. my breakfast includes toast or waffles(carbohydartes)and eggs(fats and proteins)

    -boaz ru

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  19. My breakfast is mostly cereal and eggs which is mostly carbohydrates and proteins, so i could eat nuts for more fat.
    -Aras Sanati

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  20. I don't eat breakfast so I don't get anything out of it

    Kyle Rampp

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  21. I have one of those costco jimmy dean croisants. The croissant has bread which is a carbohydrate, eggs and meat which is protein, and cheese which i dont know. i also have soymilk and i think its a protein

    Simon jiang

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  22. i have cereal, which contains carbs and fats

    Zach Grinspoon

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  23. My breakfast has a lot of carbohydrates and some fat from the cereal, but I could eat an egg for protein.

    -Zoe Junghans

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  24. My cereal has carbohydrate and my yogurt has protein. Mybe I could have some raisons in it too.



    Nick Soileau

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  25. i normally eat 2 eggs fried w/ four peices of bread and some shaved ham. So i guess i get oils carbs and protein every morning :)...

    Erin White

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  26. I have bread with fruit which have carbs

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  27. milk- protien Eggs- fat and protien
    That helps me stay foused during school


    Varun Ganti

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  28. I have cereal which gives me carbohyydrates, and yougurt which gives me protiens and fats

    - Krisztian Mazo

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  29. i have a bagle sometimes adn that is a carbohyydrate and fat because of the cram cheese.... and sometimes i hvae a waffle which is all fat.
    but i guess i could add in egg into my breakfast

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