Thursday, February 25, 2010

Healthy Food As Healthy Nourishment

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Food is a source of nourishment gives energy and builds tissues of body. And the healthy food is the one which gives you better nourishment along with good energy that helps to build the tissues of body and be healthy. In the modern mans hurried life it is important that one should have proper and planed diet to maintain his health. Proper diet means in which one can get an appropriate amount of all those nutrients which a human body needs for healthy growth and work. Healthy foods are many from which one can get a proper amount of nutrients; there are verities of natural as well as man made foods that give you the best amount of needed nutrients. Medically speaking nutrient is a chemical and substance that human body needs to grow properly, to build and repair the tissues, to give needed heat and energy to body, and to maintain the regular work of human body. Organic nutrients include carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, water and mineral also considered nutrients. Nutrients that need in bulk quantity called macronutrients and those that are needed in less quantity called micronutrients.

Healthy food is a need of everyone, but the quality of health depends on how much we eat and how many times in a day. Over eating causes irregularities of health. The healthy food is one that provides you the needed quantity of nutrients according to your body. And that is possible only by including variety of foods in your diet, like vegetables, meet, fruits, dairy products, poultry and a good quantity of water. Plan your diet including these foods is the best way to get proper nutrition and health. One should use the above mentioned foods in groups, like he can use vegetable along with dairy products in one group and meet with poultry in another; this is what we call a proper diet program or plan. Each nutrient that healthy food provides has its own particular functions in human body, for instance protein is needed for growth and repair of body, and fats are used to generate proper heat and energy needed to body along with the cell formation. So every nutrient is important for being healthy.