Question

Your friend Tiffany is taking a nutrition course at a local community college. She is having difficulty understanding the unit about the energy yielding pathways of carbohydrate, protein, and fat. Help her by discussing how the basic units of carbohydrate, protein, and fat are utilized in energy pathways to produce energy. Be thorough. Include their differences and similarities?

Answer 1

Carbohydrates,protein and fats are very essentiol in the body to make energy needed by the body.These nutrients are differ in their action and and supply of energy.Carbohydrates ,proteins and fats are digested in the intestine and they are break down into the basic units.

Carbohydrates breakdown to sugar

Protein breakdown to aminoacids

Fats breakdown into fatty acids and glycerol.

Our bodu utilizes the basic units and helps in the growing process,maintance and activity.

PROTEIN

the basic units of protein are aminoacids,seen in complex version.For this reason that proteins are complex molecules,our body takes more time to break down them.As the consequences they are act slowly and long lasting energy than carbohydrates.There are 20 amino acids.The essential aminoacids canot synthesise in the body it can be get through food consumption.The body needs protein to maintain and repalce tissues and to function and grow.The body contains large amounts of protein.These are the main building blocks in the body is the vital content of majority of cells.Adults need to consume about 60gms of protein in a day.Children also need more because they are growing.

FATS

fats are complex molecules composed of fatty acids and glycerol.The body require fat for the growth and development and also for energy.It is also needed to produce hormones and other substances needed for the body.Fats acts slowly in the body,but providing most efficient form of energy.Each gram of fat provide 9 calories of fat more than twice provided by the proteins and carbohydrates.

CARBOHYDRATES

Depending on the size of the molecule carbohydraete can be divided into simple and complex.carbohydrate provide energy to the body.These carbohydrates are digested and break down into glucose before entering the blood stream.