Energy Source

Smith, Glen. Children's Food: Marketing and Innovation. London: Blackie Academic & Professional, 1997. Print.

The source outlines the provision of exogenous nutrients that is essential to supply the body with the appropriate energy substrates so as to deal with various metabolic demands and tend to minimize depletion of body stores. Smith addresses that the energy source for the children is consistently a required energy which exceeds 35 kcal or kg in a day. This aspect portrays that the energy supply has to match metabolic demand quite close as possible (Smith 7). Children need to meet several dietary needs including intake of glucose, fat, and protein together with other basic nutrients so as to have energy. Smith said, “Absolute food intake was measured each day throughout the study” (Smith 7). Certainly, the breakfast is identified to have appropriate nutrients which supply energy sources for children. Breakfast supplies between 10% to 30% of daily energy and intake of nutrients which attributes to nutritional total diet. The author compares children’s diet in a way that children who miss breakfast are termed to have intakes of nutrient at a lower rate compared to other children who does not skip breakfast.

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1- How do Children who miss or skip the breakfast intake have lower intake of nutrients?

2- How does the energy supply in the body have to match the metabolic demand?