HEALTH

Food and nutrition are very important to take care of our body, so that our body always healthy. We can get it from various meals such as fruit, vegetables, milk etc.
From this text below you can get information about food and nutrition to keep health our body.
For hundreds years, people who are well fed live longer, are stronger, and can do better work than those who do not have enough to eat. It is only within the last two centuries that we have begun to understand why this is so, we know now how good affect growth and gives the body energy.
Not everyone has the opportunity to eat that proper foods. In some parts of the world, food is scarce, and people suffer from the terrible effect to hunger. Even in areas where foods is plentiful, there are people who do not have enough food or who do not cat the foods needed for good health.
Your body – eyes, ears, heart, legs, arms, brain, everything is made of billions of cell, and every single one of these myriad cell can grow and function well only if is supplied with the correct nutrients. The cells perform all the functions necessary for living, like breathing and eating. They make possible everything you do, from sleeping to swimming. Furthermore, the cells produce new cells and repair old ones.
Nutrition is all the ways in which any living thing takes in food and uses it for growth and energy. Food substances necessary for life are called nutrients.
For hundreds of years even the experts knew very little about food, but in this century vast strides have been made. Nutritionist have learned that there some 50 nutrient necessary for good health and that some of these can even prevent diseases that once were devastating such as scrury, rickets, beri-beri, and pellagra. When there is enogh food and people cat wisely, they are healthier than ever before. But eating wisely does not mean gorging and become fat. It means eating variety of foods and not to much, so that one maintains a proper weight.
Food provides the materials for all these complex processes. Food also supplies other needs. It has to satisfy the eyes, the taste, and the appetite. No wonder nutrition is important.
Our knowledge about nutrition has grown, but unfortunately, for half the world`s people good nutrition is not yet possible. Millions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America are sick, stunted, and dying from lack of food.