The ancients said, "Food is the most important thing for people." Nutrition mainly comes from daily diet. Without food, there is no nutrition. As the material carrier of nutrition, food plays an important role in maintaining life and health.
The body needs balanced nutrition, and the choice of food should first consider the balanced nutritional needs of the body. Even if a certain food has high nutritional value, it should be eaten with other foods. Matching staple food with non-staple food, meat with vegetarian food, coarse grains with flour and rice, and acidic food with alkaline food are the basic principles to ensure our healthy diet.
Nutrition can be roughly divided into "7+40+3" mode.
Food contains nutrients that can be digested, absorbed and utilized by human body, which are called nutrients in nutrition.
"Seven categories"-nutrients necessary for human life activities include protein, fat, carbohydrate (sugar), vitamins, minerals, water and dietary fiber.
40 subclasses "-If further decomposed, the human body needs more than 40 kinds of nutrients every day. Any kind of deficiency will lead to disease.
"Three Thermogenic Nutrients"-Among the above nutrients, protein, fat and carbohydrate (sugar) can "burn" in the body to generate heat and provide energy necessary for maintaining life and health.
Nutrition is the support of life and health. Nutrition control and health care.
If the human body is a machine, food is the driving force to ensure the normal operation of this precision machine. The quantity and quality of food can not be guaranteed, which will inevitably affect physical health, mood and energy.
Medical experts believe that insufficient nutrition and unbalanced nutrition are the important causes of many diseases. Therefore, scientific diet and reasonable nutrition supplement are important ways to improve physical fitness, enhance body resistance, reduce and overcome diseases, and achieve health and longevity.
Importance of nutrition to health ▼
Related to brain function
If adults are malnourished, they are prone to fatigue, poor endurance, and decreased attention and memory, which will affect their physical and mental work efficiency. Malnutrition will also have a disastrous impact on the brain development of infants and young children, leading to mental and physical stunting, which cannot be remedied in adulthood, and will also pass on the defects to the next generation.
Relating to the occurrence and development of diseases.
Nutrition is directly or indirectly related to many diseases, such as iron deficiency anemia, iodine deficiency goiter, vitamin D and calcium deficiency rickets. Malnutrition and decreased immunity will increase the prevalence of infectious diseases. Nutritional imbalance often becomes the inducement of obesity, cardiovascular diseases and some tumors, which seriously affects human health and even life-threatening.
Affect endocrine function
Malnutrition will affect endocrine function. Malnutrition in women can lead to amenorrhea, malnutrition in pregnant women can easily lead to premature delivery, and the fetus is prone to congenital malnutrition, congenital malformation or stillbirth. Malnutrition in men can lead to sexual dysfunction and affect fertility.
Important aspects of health care and disease prevention
Rational nutrition is the most basic and important link of health care and disease prevention. Reasonable nutrition can promote tissue regeneration, enhance the body's resistance to diseases, promote growth and development, improve intelligence, and reduce morbidity and mortality. Patients can also shorten the course of disease and accelerate their recovery through diet deployment.
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