Use Ch. 1 of Contemporary Nutrition, Ch. 2 of Visualizing Nutrition, supplemental course materials, the University Library, the Internet, or other resources to answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be 75 to 100 words.
|What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? |
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|Nutrition is the science that links foods to health and disease. It includes the processes by which the human organism ingests, |
|digests, absorbs, transports, and excretes food substances. Nutrients are essential to our everyday lives because it provides the|
|nutrients that our bodies need to function on a daily basis. Each person has his or her individual nutritional need. Nutrition |
|helps to keep people health and can also assist with how the brain works. Without proper nutrition, or nutrition itself our |
|bodies would waste away to nothing. |
|What is the connection between nutrition and health? |
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|The connection between nutrition and health is that if the body is not receiving the proper nutrients then a person is |
|jeopardizing his or her health. Having good nutrients ensures a person’s health and everyday functions. Food gives us the fuel to|
|think and the energy to move our muscles. The micronutrients, vitamins, and minerals are there so that our
