What is all about Nutrition?
Nutrition is the study of food at work in our bodies,our source for energy,the medium for which our nutrients can function and think of nutrition as the building blocks of life.Having nutrition knowledge and making smart choices about the food you can eat and also will help you achieve optimum health over you lifetime,be a key to avoiding obesity,illness and many of today's most prevalent chronic diseases.There are seven major classes of nutrients such as Carbohydrates,Fats,Fiber,Minerals,Protein,Vitamins and Water.
Carbohydrate - Our main source of energy
Fats- One source of energy and important in relation to fat soluble vitamins
Roughage (Fiber) - the fibrous indigestible portion of our diet essential to health of the digestive system.
Minerals - those inorganic elements occurring in the body and which are critical to its normal function.
Protein - essential to growth and repair of muscle and other body tissues.
Vitamins - water and fat soluble vitamins play important roles in many chemicals processes in the body.
Water - essential to normal body function - as a vehicle for carrying of other nutrients and because 60% of the human body is water.
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