Nutrition Importance

NUTRITION IMPORTANCE

Nutrition is a science that focuses on the gastrointestinal system, it involves how human ingest, digest, absorb, transport and eliminate food therefore nutrition is the study of food and nutrients.

There are six classifications of nutrients including:

· Water

· Vitamins

· Protein

· Fats

· Minerals

· Carbohydrates

Nutrients which contains almost 60% of human body is water even if you go on a diet and not eat any more proper meals you can still survive although you want make it without water for every organ of your body to work properly it needs water. Water helps in the process of digestion if you are someone who does not drink water regularly you might find yourself constipated. The basic function Vitamins is to keep away diseases and keep you healthy without a healthy dose of vitamins it would be difficult for your body to fight microorganisms. Lack of vitamins may cause skin problems, vision problems and weakness on the other hand having enough vitamins in your body would mean that you have a healthy immune system. Protein is the nutrient that gets the most hype go to any nutritionist and they will suggest a lot of food items for the proper intake of protein these includes meat, eggs and some grains, so why is protein so popular? Protein is the building block of your body, no we don’t mean just muscles we are talking on a deeper level protein is responsible for a staggering 16% of an average human’s body weight so it would be very difficult to live without this nutrient. Fats is the nutrient that human mostly try to avoid well may be you shouldn’t avoid it so much after all of course an excessive amount of fats maybe dangerous for your body too much fat can cause problem for our blood pressure levels and heart as well as our digestive and respiratory systems. But you shouldn’t avoid as it will help the absorption of other nutrients of top of that fats play an important role in cell building. Minerals consist of calcium, zinc and iron. So calcium is the mineral responsible for your strong bones it helps to transmit nerve signals from one part of the body to the other. It also helps to improve muscle contraction. Zinc is your go to mineral when it comes to boosting your healing factor. Zinc improves your immune system and strengthens your metabolism. The last mineral here is iron which is responsible for the creation of red blood cells. Carbohydrates serve as food for your brain and your central nervous system, a person should consume healthy amount of this nutrient in order to have a healthy lifestyle.