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The store calories as fat are the difference between calorie intake and spend on various activities of life. With Food Composition Tables we can see the calories we eat but what are they actually spend?

1. What we get with food calories?
Food nutrients, vitamins, minerals and water. The main nutrients in foods are fats, carbohydrates and proteins. Hydrates, fats and proteins provide the body with energy that is measured as calories. Vitamins, minerals and water do not contribute calories.

Fats provide 9 Kcal per gram. Carbohydrates provide 4 Kcal per gram. Proteins provide 4 Kcal per gram.  Fats and carbohydrates are mainly used as an energy source. The proteins serve mainly as plastic material for growth and tissue repair.

In real life we find not only a meal consisting of fat (except oils), carbohydrate or protein food but have a mixed. Thus, foods such as beef traditionally is considered a food protein but has 20.70 grams of protein, 5.40 grams of fat and trace amounts of carbohydrates.

Or the bread is considered the example of carbohydrate per 100 grams is 52 grams carbohydrates 8 grams of protein and 1.6 grams of fat. Thus each of the nutrients from food are entered together with each meal and can not be separated. To see what proportion of each nutrient is every food there calls Tables of Food Composition reflecting the study of the components of each particular food. There are several tables with variations mainly by the geographical origin of the food samples.

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Our co-Straight to the palate have delighted us with a simple recipe, this is a ham and melon skewers that are a healthy mix as an aperitif, to cool on a summer afternoon and enjoy the nutrients they both possess and standard power together.

The fat of the ham assists in the absorption of carotenoids and vitamin A that has the melon, while vitamin C in fruit makes better use of iron ham. Furthermore, the sweetness of the melon is perfectly highlighted with the salty and savory ham. Thus, an appetizer of ham with melon is a healthy combination of food without many calories (90 kcal per 2 skewers) and most importantly with good nutrients for the body.

In addition to vitamin C, carotene, vitamin A, fiber and water melon, this snack can find iron, good quality protein, healthy fats mostly monounsaturated, sodium, potassium and phosphorus derived from the ham.

After watching closely on television advertising, which promotes a product enriched in calcium, I feel the need to clarify that calcium is not only in dairy products and tell you not to forget this fact, because they often believe that as our intake of milk is low, do not cover the AI for calcium, when in reality, there are many foods that are not derived from milk that can help us meet the needs of this mineral.

The publicity was assessed calcium intake of a person questioned about their consumption of dairy products, however, was not provided for other sources of calcium in the diet, such as fish, some fruits and vegetables, bread, cereals and other .

For that reason, I believe we should not forget that calcium is not only in dairy products because even though we have a high intake of milk, yogurt or cheese, we can cover our share of mineral using seeds, dried fruits and other common foods.

This erroneous concept that the calcium in milk only this can push us to consume mineral supplements or calcium-fortified products have a high cost.

Beyond economics, if exceeded recommended calcium intake can suffer hypercalcemia that, although rare in its development by the diet, also has serious consequences to health.