All About Nutrition | A Healthy Diet Plan
Hello Everyone
Today
let's discuss something new and
different and in order to do so let's start by asking ourselves “what did we
eat for lunch yesterday?
Was it a burger, a pizza, a vegetable sandwich or
just some tasty curry and rice or did you
skip a meal.
Well all of us keep wondering what should we eat to be healthy and fit. But don't worry
in this post, we will try to give you all a complete picture about nutrition.
Yes, you heard me right. All of us come across this term very often but fail to understand the true meaning of it.
So without any further delay let's get started. Every living organism needs energy isn't that true?
Food and nutrition are the way that we get fuel, providing energy for our bodies. We need to replace nutrients in our bodies with a new supply every day. We see animals like cows grazing in the fields then another example is that we humans have food two to three times a day now all this food we eat is to obtain energy in the body. So we can say that food is the fuel required by the body to function properly and for the living organisms to survive. Humans perform all the day-to-day activities like walking exercising playing sports dancing climbing etc by using the energy obtained from the food they eat but besides all these do you all know that the body also requires energy even when we do not perform any physical activity like say just sitting around, doing nothing, sleeping or meditating.
This
is because that energy is required by the body for biological processes which
continuously occur in the body like breathing or beating of the heart.
We
as humans have a varity of foods
available to eat the simplest form of food is glucose because a body can
absorb glucose quickly and provide instant energy.
we
all know that sportsmen and athletes depend on this glucose syrup for instant energy
also, a glucose drip is given to patients in the hospitals as they too near this
instant energy but we all know it's not a complete form of food. food has many
more components that provide us the required energy.
Let's
see what our daily diet looks like we consume foods like rice potato and types
of bread which provides energy but not as quickly as glucose. These foods
contain starch which is a complex form of glucose itself and this starch is ultimately broken by the body
into glucose and therefore starch is absorbed in a slower rate as compared to
simple glucose molecules now both these components that is glucose and starch
belong to a family of carbohydrates but
other than carbohydrates. There are other families like proteins fats and
vitamins and minerals so now let's look at the various food sources of these
families since all the contents in these families provide the energy they are called as nutrients.
When
all these nutrients are present in some form in our diet in the right quantity
we call that diet to be a healthy and well-balanced diet and the process of consuming all these nutrients and
using them for the growth maintenance
and repair of our body is known as nutrition. But what if all these nutrients are present in an imbalanced
form in an individual's diet is if
the nutrients are in insufficient quantities we say that the person is suffering from undernutrition.
On the other hand, what if any of these nutrients are in excess quantities we say that it's over nutrition now both these terms for an imbalanced form of nutrition in one's diet can be collectively termed as malnutrition but commonly we consider undernutrition as a major aspect of malnutrition.
Besides this, we all have heard the term deficiency now
deficiency occurs if an individual fails to meet the daily requirement of only a particular nutrient thus it is very important for all
the nutrients to be present in a balanced amount in our diet for a healthy and completely happy life
So
as promised we did give you all the information you need about a healthy diet
but just so you know our food eating habits have given rise to some unusual myths related to
nutrition. For example:- some people say that skipping breakfast helps you to
lose weight but the fact is research shows that breakfast skippers tend to
overeat during the day so don't go by the logic that by skipping a meal you
tend to consume less food so now since we have busted this well-known myth with
a very important fact we would like to tell you only one thing eat well and
stay healthy.
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