The Importance of Health and Diet Nutrition
September 7, 2009 by health
Filed under Health and Fitness Plans
How do you define nutrition? For your information, Nutrition refers to the field of learning the connections of meal planning diet into the current health nutrition status and diseases occurring in an individual. As far you all know, due to abrupt changes in your meal plan, your health condition might be at risk for innumerable health risks including over-nourishment and undernourishment.
Nutrition facts speculates the relationship of your meal plan and health nutrition condition. For instance, the variety of food you eat in your meal plan plays a very significant factor in affecting your well-being. Further, you should be aware that your body comproses of several chemical compounds namely: H2O, carbohydrates, proteins, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), ribonucleic acid (RNA), and lipids. In addition, minerals exists in your body as well naming some of them as Calcium (Ca), Zinc (Zn), and Iron (Fe), which you obtain from your daily serving of food indicated in your meal plan.
Moreover, the Digestion process occurring inside the body makes all these chemical reaction possible—making the useful nutrients agents for the cells’ survival. The gastric juice found in the human body’s digestive system is mostly weighing up to seven liters and it aid in further digestion of food ingested. What the gastric juice does is to help in releasing the chemical compounds present in the food you eat as it breaks residues of chemical bonds; however, not all compounds are changeable or adaptable to chemical change. Such unchanged elements or compounds (better known as wastes of the cells), if not taken out of the body, would cause dehydration. Thus, an instance of Diarrhea often occurs when gastric juices are not redirected to the digestive tract.
People are subjected to consume food which is not processed because it is healthier in doing so than eating meals which are processed. For a cell to fully-develop, mature, and repair, unprocessed foods are mostly recommended. Furthermore, recent studies show that trans fatty acid is acquired upon eating so much processed foods. Such excessive fatty acids in the body are not advisable since it causes some health-threatening side effect. Consequentially during the latter years of 1990, the U. S. governments including other government of some countries have decided to ban any food having this trans fatty acid content.
For a long time, nutrition research on health nutrition showed that not only less food intake plays a part on weight loss or best nutrition, but also the process of metabolism/chemical reactions in the body and the functionality of the body organs working together to undergo anabolism and catabolism the fat cells and acids. Moreover, long exposure to cold temperature induces body to generate fast metabolism for the body heat emitted in attempt to neutralize the lowness of the temperature.
On the other hand, the food industry also plays a major role in implementation of proper diet nutrition. During the Industrial Revolution (which occurred 200 years ago), technology has advanced and continuously emerging up to the time when the food industry came up to invent some machines enabling to process and preserve food and keep its freshness and good appearance and condition. Generally, food like fish, vegetables could be preserved by placing it on ice, but for the big food industries, they manage to invent some other processes of preserving food by means of autoclavation, salting, drying, and pasteurization. Among these processes, drying and salting are the most common.
However, pasteurization is the process wherein foods are heated to kill existing ill-causing, germs and bacteria, salmonella and other kinds of viruses, molds, yeasts, and protozoas. Pasteurization had its name originating from Louis Pasteur, as he invented the process. In fact, the 1st pasteurization process has undergone on 20th day of April in year 1862. Further, the process of autoclavation or heating, is another way of maintaining the quality taste of food and for protecting the people from obtaining and harmful bacteria or viruses which my cause diseases. In so doing, natural, unprocessed foods are recommended for your diet nutrition meal plan to maintain your good health condition with the proper nutrition. Thus, eat foods which are fortified with vitamin and minerals and enriched with other useful chemical compounds needed by the body.
