What You Do and Donât Want to See in an Preschool Classroom. Additional Materials: What to Look for in a Preschool Program. In a very real sense, your child is an explorer who faces a future in unknown territory. As a parent you are doing everything you can to get her ready for this great adventure. Many of the skills your child will need in the years to come you can only guess at.
You may think of protein as the muscle-building nutrient and fat as the fat-storage nutrient, but protein can act as a fat under certain physiological conditions. Proteinâs primary role is to provide the building blocks, or amino acids, to synthesize structural and functional proteins within the body.
At its most basic, if we eat exactly the number of calories that we burn and if we're only talking about weight, the answer is no -- a calorie is a calorie. A protein calorie is no different from a fat calorie -- they are simply units of energy. As long as you burn what you eat, you will maintain your weight; and as long as you burn more than you eat, you'll lose weight.