7877121 UNM-Los Alamos NUTR 244-300 Human Nutrition Philip s, and Proteins 2 of

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7877121 UNM-Los Alamos NUTR 244-300 Human Nutrition Philip s, and Proteins 2 of 3 Part A Energy Contribution of Carbohydrates Mrs. Kirby. 58, is a moderately acive woman She works in the garden almost daily, occasionally walks with her friends, and babysits her three very active young grandchildren every weekend. She eats a fairly standard diet every day she has cereall with milk and coffee for breakfast, some kind of salad for lunch, and a piece of meat or fish wth a healthy helping of veggies for dinner She usualy skips desserts or has just a couple of strawberries When asked to look at the food labels and calculate her intake of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins in grams over the entire day, on an average day, she came up with the folowing numbers Carbohydrates 243g Fats: 41 g Proteins: 63g Calculate what percentage of Mrs. Kirby's total energy intake came from carbolhydrates Round the percentage to the nearest whole number View Available Hines) Hint 1, Macronutrient energy valuo Hint 2. How to calculate the energy value of a macronutrient To calculate the energy value that comes from a particular macronutrient, mutiply the mass of the macronutrient in grams by the corresponding energy value comversion factor (isted in Hint A1) Submit X Incorrect: Try Again;3 attempts remaining Part B- Energy Contribution of Fats Ater Mrs. Kirby received nutritional advice, her neighbor asked for her help with calculating the contr bution of energy from fats in her det. For a long time, har doctor has been teling her to lower the fat intake below 30%Of her total calories, but she does not really know how to do h-much less how to calculate it Mes. Korby explained how she did her calculations, and the neighbor showed her her numbers Togother they came up with botal calorie intake of 2200 kcal and 63 g of fat

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Carbohydrate 234X 4 =972

Protein 63 X4= 252

Fat 41X9 = 369

Total = 1593

369 ÷1593

0.23 X100 = 23%

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