Period 8 Nutrients

There are three Macronutrients that your body needs to get from food for energy and for survival. They are carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Everything that you eat falls into one of these three categories. Your body needs all three. In order to optimize energy levels and health it is important to get all three in each meal that you eat.


They are carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Below are some examples of foods for each macronutrient.

Common sources of carbohydrates - starchy foods (like grain, bread, bagels,cereals and potatoes), fruits, milk, and yogurt. Other foods like vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds and cottage cheese contain carbohydrates, but in lesser amounts. Fruit juice, energy drinks, sport drinks, and sodas.

Common Sources of proteins meats, poultry, fish, meat substitutes, cheese, milk, nuts, legumes(beans)

Common Sources of fat are meat, poultry, nuts, milk products, butters, oils, lard, olive oil, avocados, nuts, and coconut oil.

For this weeks blog I want you to think about everything you ate and drank throughout the day yesterday. Write it down if you have to and, using percentages, tell me what the macronutrient breakdown of your nutrition was for yesterday.

For example: Yesterday I had spinach(carb), eggs(protein) and ham(protein) with some almonds(fat) for breakfast. For lunch I had chili(Protein) with kale(carb) and guacamole(fat) and dinner I had two hamburgers(protein) on top of a spinach salad(carbs) with some more guac(fat). I only drink water and coffee so they do not count towards my macronutrients.

The breakdown looks like this:
Protein: 4
Carbs: 3
Fat: 3

Or as a percentage
Protein 40%
Carbs 30%
Fat 30%