Daily Calorie Intake: Nutrition and Metabolism

Nutrition and Metabolism Your Name Your Institution of Affiliation May 6, 2018 Introduction: By definition, Nutrition is the supply of resources to the body to maintain its healthy functioning. More particularly, this happens through the ingestion and digestion of food as well as its distribution to the cells throughout the whole body. It is said that while there are seven types of micronutrients, the macronutrients – lipids, carbohydrates, and proteins – are some of the most utilized portions of out diet CITATION Nor17 \l 1033 (Nordqvist, 2017). Other types of nutrients could include fiber and water amongst other organic compounds. In contrast to this, metabolism refers to most of the chemical processes that make the flow of nutrition possible. This specific process of providing nutritive resources to the body could be broken down into two sections, which are anabolism and catabolism. On the one hand, Catabolism refers to the process of breaking down of different materials and molecules so that it could enter the bloodstream and provide supply for the cells themselves. On the other hand, Anabolism refers to the creation or synthesis of such materials to obtain energy and create structures at the cellular level CITATION Wha17 \l 1033 (Mandal, 2017). In line with this, it must be noted that a failure between any of these two is critical for the existence of life itself. Even in humans, diseases and illnesses occur due to severe malnutrition. Estimates even state that every year, about 2.6 million children die in the world, due to this phenomena and it is increasing even more CITATION Glo12 \l 1033 (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2012). Consequently, the author of this article believes that this exacerbates the need for a more thorough understanding of nutrition especially for health practitioners. Thus, in the succeeding sections of the article nutrition and how it affects us in our daily lives would be further discussed. This includes a calculation of a person’s resting daily energy expenditure (RDEE) and total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) as well as a flow chart of how the energy is utilized within the body. Materials List: In this experiment, the following materials are used. Item Quantity Bathroom Scale 1 Book (for measuring) 1 Pencil 1 Cloth Tape Measure 1 Clear Tape 1 Procedures: The first part of the experiment was aimed at calculating the body’s Resting Daily Energy Expenditure (RDEE). To start with, the researcher measured the height of the participants using a book and a measuring tape. Before doing this, however, accuracy was assured as the participants were asked to remove their shoes as well as other belongings that could affect their height. After this, a measurement of one’s weight was also conducted with the precautions on the accuracy of taking the weight, put into consideration. After gathering the data for both height and weight, Benedict Equation was then placed in a tabular form (Data Table 1), and Harris-Benedict equation was utilized to calculate for the RDEE. To be able to compute for the participant’s Total Daily Expenditure, the Physical Activity Coefficient was taken and multiplied to the RDEE. For the second part of the experimen...