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Macronutrients Crucial Body Power

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Macronutrients are crucial nutrients for your body to absorb. They are used for the storage of fats, energy for your muscles, helps children to develop properly, balances out your fluids, immune system, hormones, and used to form RNA, DNA, and ATP. 3 Essential Macronutrients Your body utilizes three essential macronutrients in large amounts - fat, proteins, and carbohydrates - for your body to function properly by using their amino acids, and fatty acids, and to provide the body with energy (Streit).  Fat Fats store fat soluble vitamins and nutrients inside the liver and fatty tissues and contain essential fatty acids such as cholesterol, and triglycerides, to help keep your body warm and protect organs (Dutchen). Triglycerides are packaged into chylomicrons for transport through the bloodstream, activating lipoprotein lipase once they reach fat and muscle tissues, which means they break them down to be absorbed by muscles for energy and fat for storage (Biointeractive). The heart,

Exercising Prevents Metabolic Diseases

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Making Exercising a Top Priority Exercising should be a top priority in your life. It will help you sleep, keep your weight under control, reduce your risk for metabolic diseases, and help you to live longer. Most exercises consist of aerobics, anaerobic, and agility training.  Exercising Increases Your Lifespan Exercising adds years to your life, helps with weight loss, prevents cancer and heart conditions, improves your sex life, helps people sleep better, and improves your lung functions (Mayo Clinic). Exercise is proven to help you live longer, providing improved functioning inside your brain along with stronger bones and muscles - especially as you age (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Include Family and Friends Make exercise fun by including your family and friends in the routines, choose activities besides the gym like basketball, horseback riding, tennis, or even an evening stroll around the neighborhood (Robinson et al).  Sometimes including friends and family in t