HEALTH AND NUTRITION:A focus on healthy eating

Health and nutrition 

Nutrition is a critical part of health and development. Better nutrition is related to improved infant, child and maternal health, stronger immune systems, safer pregnancy and childbirth, lower risk of non-communicable diseases (such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease), and longevity. Healthy children learn better.

Nutrition is one of the most important contributors to human health. In addition to managing weight, blood pressure and cholesterol, a healthy diet can help prevent and manage of a number of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some cancers.

          

            A healthy diet throughout life promotes healthy pregnancy outcomes, supports normal growth, development and ageing, helps to maintain a healthy body weight, and reduces the risk of chronic disease leading to overall health and well-being. Some nutrients also act as antioxidants. These may be vitamins, minerals, proteins, or other types of molecules. They help the body remove toxic substances known as free radicals, or reactive oxygen species. If too many of these substances remain in the body, cell damage and disease can result. Nutrition is a basic human need and a prerequisite for healthy life. A proper diet is essential from very early age of life for growth, development and active life. Nutrition is the science that deals with all the various factors of which food is composed and the way in which proper nourishment is brought about.

The average nutritional requirements of groups of people are fixed and depend on such measurable characteristics such as age, sex, height, weight, degree of activity and rate of growth. In this section following are covered in detail.

Importance of protein 

Proteins are made from amino acids and they are vital for living beings to carry out a wide range of functions essential for life. Almost half of the protein in our body is in the form of muscles. The quality of protein depends upon the content of essential amino acid in the food.

Functions

Protein in the form of enzymes and hormones is required for a wide range of vital metabolic processes in the body.

Proteins supply the bodybuilding material and help body growth and development in children and adolescents.

In adults, it helps to maintain the losses that occur due to wear and tear.

During pregnancy and lactation, additional protein is required for synthesis of foetal and maternal tissue.

VITAMIN A: it importance to human body for good and healthy living.

VITAMIN A: Vitamin A is a fat- soluble vitamin. It has important role in vision, immune functions and integrity of skin and mucus membrane. 

Why we must eat nutritional food

Eating Food that are nutritional to our bodies to be strong and fight desaeses that are trying to bring us down . You are what you eat a healthy live style is the surest way to go if you want to live long without having challenge. Food that make grow will always be there let play our part by making sure that what ever enters our mouth is good and fit for eating to avoid health issues.

Eating good food make you look attractive ,strong ,bold and energized all the time.

Importance of eating fruits 

Fruits are integral part of healthy living which provide the body with different  nutritional values that can prevent us from contacting desaeses ,with all the vitamins found in fruit it is important that we plant trees that bear fruit in our houses for way access and growth especially for children that are from age five to fifteen years. Some of the fruits could include 

Mango, orange, water melon ,guava , carrots , etc. 

This will help In busting the immune systems and make the body strong and agile ready for any bacterial that may want to disturb your health condition especially for those that have ulcer , high blood pressure .