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Carbs are the main source of energy in the human diet.
• They are found primarily in foods derived from plants.
Can You Name a Few Protein Containing Foods?
Sources include meats, eggs, milk and legumes such as
beans.
Fat is the preferred form of long term storage for humans.
• Fats are stored in special fat cells called lipocytes a.k.a....
The human body is a biological machine and like
all machines, it needs fuel to do work like running,
thinking, even reading this!
This fuel comes from our food, primarily from Carbohydrates (short term) and fats (long term)
• We burn this fuel when we use our body. Generally, if we eat more than we burn we gain weight, if we burn more, we lose weight!
• Cars don't have the ability to store gasoline! That alone shows us how inferior our technology is to natures.
• If they could take gasoline and change it to a storable form such as fat then cars would get chubby!
• The dietitian can approximate your daily caloric expenditure (energy used) and then adjust your caloric intake (energy taken in via food) which will result in weight loss (the body will pull the extra energy you need from your fat stores)
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