How would you categorize sugar in listing of food source. As in meat is a protein,,milk is a dairy,,so on?
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Sugar is a carbohydrate, not fat as many of the other answers stated.
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Sugar goes in the fats/oils section on the food pyrimid.
carbs or fats and oils
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fats, oil, sweets
sweets are sugars
Fats and Oils.
I think it's pure Carb.
sugar isnt a food so it wouldnt go anywhere
Sugar is a carbohydrate...it's at the top of the food pyramid (for things you should consume sparingly) as "fats, oils, sweets"
In the old "food pyramid", sugar was considered to be at the top, with the "sweets, fats, and oils".
To be honest, sugar is not a food. In the form of sucrose (common table sugar), it's a health wrecker, a poison. It does nothing for you except to add calories to your diet, and fat to your hide. We eat so much of it because it's a relatively cheap filler in processed foods, and is addictive.
You Are What You Eat: How Food Quality Affects Your Health is to be used in my third grade class as a part of the Science and Social Studies curriculum. Presently the third grade curriculum emphasizes teaching our students about the community with a major emphasis on New Haven. I would also like to touch on two other broad objectives included in the 3rd grade curriculum in the unit: the purpose of local and national government, and citizenship, the responsibility of each individual to be active members of their communities. Along with these, I would like to include two science objectives: to make students aware of the principals of good nutrition, and the need for citizens to take the problems of the environment seriously.
The issue of food quality is one already impacting us and it is vital that students become aware of it. We continually read stories of dangers that exist in our food due to additives, improper food preparation and poor food choices. This unit does not seek to negate chips and Big Macs. It is safe to conclude that for most of my students major changes in their eating habits will be hard to make given our culture and society. However, they can be taught to make healthier choices. They can also begin to see that as responsible citizens it is possible for them to influence government into monitoring food quality more effectively.I. What do we eat and why?
A. Complete a food diary
B. Influences include culture, region, and religion
C. Corporate advertising
II. Why do we need food?
A. Food and water are necessities
B. Food provides nutrients to help the body function
____1. Water, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
____2. Vitamins and minerals
C. Food Pyramid
III. Where does the community’s food supply come from?
Food provides the energy that we need to live our lives and perform our daily activities from running, swimming and walking to thinking and breathing. Food also provides the nutrients our body needs to build and repair tissue and to regulate the body organs and systems. Human beings get food from plants and from animals.
There are six kinds of nutrients that we need in varying proportions. They are necessary for us to live and each has a specific function. The main four are water, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. We need lesser amounts of the other two, vitamins and minerals.
Water is the most important nutrient we need because without it we cannot live. Water in our bodies carries the other nutrients where they are needed. We also need water to carry away waste products and to keep ourselves cool.
Carbohydrates are foods that are made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. They come mainly from plants. There are simple and complex carbohydrates. Simple carbohydrates are sugars and they usually taste sweet and dissolve in water. Sugars or saccharides are found in fruits and some vegetables, maple sap, and honey. There are two kinds of saccharides. Monosaccharides which are simple sugars including fructose found in fruits, glucose found in our blood and galactose found in milk products. The other called Disaccharides are made two sugar molecules include sucrose (normal table sugar), Lactose or milk sugar, and maltose found in sprouting grain.
Complex carbohydrates or polysaccharides are made of more complicated links of saccharide molecules. The two main complex carbohydrates that we eat are sugars and starches. All carbohydrates simple or complex are turned into glucose in your body. They are carried in your blood to every cell. It is like the gasoline in a car fueling the cells that make up your body. Usually it is recommended that you eat cereals, breads, potatoes, grains, peas and beans in order to satisfy the need for carbohydrates.If your body produces more glucose than it needs the extra is changed to glycogen and stored. When the body needs more energy it can be changed back into glucose. If you have more glucose than you can save it changes into fat and you gain weight.Fats are necessary for the body. They store energy, help to transport some vitamins, help to keep your skin healthy and to insulate your body from the cold and acts like a cushion around your body to keep it from being injured. Fat is the most efficient source of energy. Each gram of fat provides 9 calories of energy, while each gram of protein or carbohydrate gives 4 calories of energy.
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