Continuing with just how important good nutrition is for the very Life of the human being.
Again The Basic Nutrients

1. carbohydrates 4. minerals

2. Fats 5. vitamins

3. Proteins 6. Water

While carbohydrates,proteins and fats all supply energy to the body, they are not all
created equal.
As you will see in the illustration below, for any given weight Fat supplies 21/4 times
as much energy (calories) as the same amount of proteins or carbohydrates- 9 calories
per gram compared to 4 calories per gram.
By the way, alcohol gives approx. 7 calories of energy per gram, but it is almost totally
absent of any of the other nutrients..lol

The Illustration

Calories per Gram Calories per Ounce

Fats 9 250

protein 4 110

carbohydrates 4 110

-approximate weight: 28 grams= 1 ounce-

Carbohydrates are sometimes condemned as being the main culprit that's responsible
for one being overweight (obese). One of America's most common and most serious Health
problems, when Fat actually contains more than twice the number of calories. Today in the
average American diet, 45% of our energy comes from carbohydrates, 43% comes from fat
and the other 12% comes from protein. This pattern of eating is not the way it use to be in
the good old US of A, nor is it the way it is at the present time in less affluent countries, where
most of the energy in the diet comes from carbohydrates-in some countries, I have read, even
as much as 80%. Although no definite daily requirement in grams has been suggested for
Fat or Carbohydrates as there has been for Protein. It would certainly be much better for our
Health if we would increase the amount of carbohydrates in our diet so that it provided about
55 or 60% of our daily energy needs, at the same time we should lower our fat intake from the
present level of around 43% down to around 30% or less of our energy supply, specially since
we are now aware that a high diet of fats is strongly associated with coronary artery disease
as well as Colon,breast and even possibly prostate cancer.
One good way to know if you are getting to many calories is to watch your weight. Extra
calories are stored mainly in the body as adipose tissue, we know it as Fat. It takes approx.
3500 calories to make just one pound of fat. So, if everyday for just one week you take in 500
more calories than you burn up as energy, by the end of the week you will have stored those
excess 3500 calories as one pound of fat. The reverse is also true, so that for every 3500 calories
you use in excess of what you take in, there will be a loss of one pound in weight.

Until next time....I trust this article was of some benefit!