Question

1. how should you change your food choices in order to comply with carbohydrate recommendations for good health?

2. how should you change your food choices in order to comply with protien recommendations for good health?

3 how should you change your food choices in order to comply with fat recommendations for good health?

Answer 1

Regarding Carbohydrates we should focus on the type .Whole grain whole wheat bread rather than flour or finely refine white bread or refined sugar.Minimally processed food should be in our diet for healthy diet. Carbohydrates ultimately produce Glucose in our body and which in turn break into Krebs’ acid cycle for production of ATP or energy for body cell into carbon dioxide and water.

CBD are present in many foods like bread,pulses,whole grains beans potato soft drinks etc. we should go for a food that at the same time give carbohydrate and fibre. No soft drink a must.

We should add fruits,vegetables and pulses whole grain bread, beans (cornflakes as cereal in breakfast) instead of pastry, cakes and potato refined sugar and foods made with flour.

Regarding protein ....Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins

We daily need over 7 grams for every 20 pounds of body weight.and not more than that

Proteins are classified as first class protein means those come from animal source like egg,poultry, meat,fish etc and that from plant source like pulses etc animal proteins are complete source of amino acids which are a bit deficient in plant proteins

we should go for animal proteins like chickens as red meat contain high salt content and saturated fat.But instead we can go for lean meat and lentil (low salt,good protein source)

We should be cautious about our diet to maintain a good health. We should know that we can not totally curtail the fat in our diet. It is also required for our nutrition and metabolism.There are different types of fat available for our food we have to select from them specially to maintain a good lipid profilre and a healthy cardiovascular activity

• Though we have to go for low fat diet but still if we have to select,food rich in unsaturated fats meaning mono and poly unsaturated fats should be selected .Vegetable oil like olive oil(best) sunflower oil etc rather than butter .Also we should eat nuts and fish. Fish is also a very good source of omega 3 fatty acid and poly unsaturated fats which help in maintain heart health blood pressure etc.
• We have to avoid saturated fat and trans fat which are bad fat. These trans fat are present in processed food and cause increased risk for ischemic heart disease.Food rich in saturated fat are palm oil,red meat, butter etc which should be avoided.