| Nutrition is the foundation and in input to for health | | | | minerals, protein, and are the best source of calcium. |
| and development. Nutrition is the body of science | | | | In fact, it has been estimated that dietary changes |
| that seeks to explain physiologic and metabolic | | | | could reduce cancer deaths in the United States by |
| responses to diet. With advances in biochemistry, | | | | as much as 35 percent. However, fats, sweets, and |
| molecular biology, and genetics, nutrition is additionally | | | | oils, provide calories and little else, and should be used |
| developing into the study of integrative metabolism, | | | | sparingly. Drinking enough water is also essential to |
| which seeks to connect health and diet through the | | | | keeping hydrated, carrying nutrients through the |
| lens of biochemical processes. | | | | body, converting food into energy, and removing |
| Lifespan may be somehow related to the amount of | | | | waste. Drinking too much water during activities can |
| food energy consumed. Better nutrition means | | | | lead to physical discomfort; dehydration hinders an |
| stronger immune systems, better health and less | | | | athlete's ability. Studies have shown that an athlete |
| illness. Healthy children learn better. Healthy people are | | | | that drinks before they feel thirsty stays cooler and |
| more productive, stronger, and more able to create | | | | performs better than one who drinks on thirst cues. |
| opportunities to gradually break the cycles of both | | | | Freedom from hunger and malnutrition is a basic |
| poverty and hunger in a sustainable way. Better | | | | human right. Eating the right food will make a lot of |
| nutrition is a milestone to achieving better quality of | | | | change in your life. A lot of people especially children |
| life and a prime entry point to ending poverty. | | | | suffer form malnutrition. The world is also seeing a |
| Eating right is vital to promoting health and reducing | | | | dramatic increase in other forms of malnutrition |
| the risk for death or disability due to chronic diseases | | | | characterized by obesity and the long-term |
| such as certain cancers, diabetes, stroke, heart | | | | implications of unbalanced dietary and lifestyle |
| disease, and osteoporosis. Poor eating habits are | | | | practices that result in chronic diseases such as |
| usually established during childhood. And more than 60 | | | | cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. |
| percent of young people eat too much fat, and less | | | | Eating an unhealthy diet and being overweight will |
| than 20 percent eat the recommended servings of | | | | increase the risk of heart disease of any individual be |
| fruits and vegetables. | | | | it an adult or a kid. If you eat the right kind of foods |
| Fruits and vegetables provide essential fiber, vitamins | | | | and maintain a healthy weight the risk of heart |
| and minerals, and other substances that are | | | | disease will automatically decrease. For weight loss, it |
| associated with good health. Low fat diets rich in | | | | is best to avoid the high calorie foods and choose |
| fiber-containing grain products, vegetables and fruits | | | | low calorie, high fiber foods like vegetables and fruits |
| may reduce the risk of heart disease and some | | | | instead. If a person needs to gain a bit of weight |
| types of cancer. Milk products provide vitamins and | | | | then some of the high calorie foods will help. |