Nutrients
Answer the following questions:
- What
are the differences between saturated and unsaturated fats?
- How
can we obtain water?
- Give
an example of a mineral with structural function.
- Regarding
vitamins: why is it so important to eat fresh food?
- If
you eat too much A or D vitamin, what may happen?
- What is vegetal fibre? Can we obtain energy from them?
- Cholesterol
is a lipid, has cholesterol an energetic function?
- What
is an amino acid? What does it mean “essential amino acid”?
- Using
different symbols to represent amino acids, try to do a drawing of a
protein made up of different amino acids.
- Proteins
are the building blocks of our cells, and therefore, of the tissues,
organs and systems. So, proteins form us. What are proteins made of?
- What
would it happen to a person who does not take proteins?