The document discusses the six essential nutrients - carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water - and their important roles in maintaining health. Each nutrient performs specific vital functions, from providing energy to building tissue to regulating body functions. Getting a balanced intake of nutrients as a teen can improve health long-term. The three main energy nutrients are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, with carbohydrates and proteins providing four calories per gram and fat providing nine calories per gram. Carbohydrates are the body's primary energy source and are found in starches and sugars.

1. Each nutrient in your diet plays a
unique and essential role in keeping
you healthy.
Giving Your Body What It Needs
Each of the six nutrients has a specific job or
vital function to keep you healthy.
Everything you eat contains nutrients.
Giving Your Body What It Needs
Nutrients perform specific roles in maintaining your
body functions.
Getting a proper balance of nutrients during the
teen years can improve your health through
adulthood.
Giving Your Body What It Needs
Your body uses
nutrients in many ways:
As an energy source
To heal, and build and
repair tissue
To sustain growth
To help transport
oxygen to cells
To regulate body
functions
Giving Your Body What It Needs
The Six Types
of Nutrients
Carbohydrates Proteins
Fats
VitaminsMinerals
Water
Nutrients That Provide Energy
Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats provide
your body with energy and help maintain
your body.
The body uses these nutrients to build, repair,
and fuel itself.
Nutrients That Provide Energy
The energy in food comes from three sources:
carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
Each gram of
carbohydrate or protein
provides four calories.
Each gram of fat
provides nine calories.
Carbohydrates
Most nutrition experts recommend getting 45 to
65 percent of your daily calories from
carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates
Starches and sugars found in foods,
which provide your body’s main
source of energy