Health Concept Statement Examples

Out of the 10 Health Concept Statement, I decided to pick the three major nutrients - fats, carbohydrates, and proteins and the other three nutrients- water, vitamins, and minerals aid in the body’s use of energy. The textbook provided with good examples of these nutrients and I found it very helpful.
Let’s start on carbohydrates in the book. The textbook mentions that carbohydrates are the body’s primary source of energy for all body functioning. Includes chemical compounds sugar, starches, and dietary fibers. For some reason, I never knew that sugar was part of carbohydrates, I thought that it was a part of fat. Anyways, something new that I learned that carbohydrates is divided into two categories: simple, monosaccharides and disaccharides; and complex, polysaccharides. One thing that I do recall on carbohydrates back when I took a health class, that carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram and are converted into glucose indigestion. But surprising, one fact that I found to be very amazing was that simple carbohydrate is digested faster because since they are composed of few saccharides unite than complex. Whereas, complex carbohydrates take longer to digest because
since they have more fiber, vitamin, and mineral. Examples of complex carbohydrates are bananas, carrots, oatmeal, and sweet potatoes. Yet, there was something that there was a specific recommendation on what is the average person requirement needs, the textbook mentioned that a person needs approximately 1,200 of their daily calories from carbohydrates, but age, gender, and activity level could affect the amount needed each day. Fats, many people assume that when they hear that we need some fats in our diet, many picture fats from greasy food. But, we need healthy fats that are found in avocado, nuts, or from seafood containing omega-3. According to Merck Manual, it states that the average recommendation is consuming less than 28% of our daily total calories. And that saturated fats should be limited to less than 8%. Merck Manual gave an explanation on how many fats were there, it comes out that there are 6 kinds of fats: Monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, saturated, omega- 3 fatty acids, omega-6 fatty acids, and trans-fat.
Next, protein, every person has heard about in order to build muscle we need to eat protein, which is correct.
But not many people are well informed about protein. According to Heuser Health, it explains that protein is the main component of our organs, muscles, all our living cells, and almost all our body fluids. Therefore, protein isn’t really for building muscle, but help maintain strong organs and cells, which I found it very interesting. One thing that was very surprising was that you can get your proteins from plant food source. And yet, Heuser Health states that if you compare any source of animal meat and dairy to dark green vegetables, such as soybeans or other plant sources, you will find that the plant foods often contain more protein and fewer calories than consuming meat or
dairy.
The other three nutrients, water, vitamin, and mineral, which aids energy for the body are other essentials thing we need in our health. According to Jillian Michaels, a personal trainer, she mentions the importance of having water, vitamins, and minerals in our body. Having the need for water is important, water makes 70 % of the human body. The importance of water is to keep us from dehydration which can contribute to body fat, digestion problems, and the malfunction of the organs. Next, vitamins, there are only 13 kinds of vitamin out there and Jillian Michaels literally explains that vitamins are an activate chemicals that react in the human body and provide us with energy. Finally, minerals, minerals is something that has too much it can be bad for your health. She mentions that minerals help balance fluids, build blood and bones, regulate muscle tone and help maintain a healthy nervous system. The most important minerals that we need to consume a bit more are: Calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, and phosphorus