1. Food in our life.
Food is the third most important thing for living beings to provide energy and development, maintain life, or stimulate growth after air and water. In fact, it is one of the most complicated sets of chemicals.
The importance of food is obvious and essential. Healthy food provides us the nutrients and energy to develop and grow, be active and healthy, to move, play, work, think and learn.
Foods are directly related to our body and mental and social health because each food or liquid contains particular nutrition such as carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, minerals, fats, etc, which are very necessary for our physical and mental growth. These nutritious foods are in the form of grains, pulses, fruits, vegetables, oils, etc.
Food and water are the main sources of nutrition and strengthening the body, but many of the foods we eat do not have any nutritional values.
On the contrary, they lead to health problems such as diabetes and heart disease. Therefore, you should choose healthy and balanced foods that can provide enough nutritional value for the body.
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2. Why are nutrients important?
The secret to why nutrition is essential for people is in the word itself – nutrition comes from nutrients. Nutrients are the good things that we get through food which we need to nourish and nurture ourselves, and to be happy and healthy people.
In scientific terms, nutrition is the supply of food that we need as an organism to feed our cells and keep them alive. We can get nutrients from products such as vitamin supplements, however when we talk about nutrition we mostly mean the nutrients we get from food.
Nutrition means getting the food and nourishment that you need for health and growth.
Without nutrition, we grow weak, sick and at the very worst can even die. We miss developmental milestones and can’t put our bodies through the daily mental and physical tasks that we need them to. We aren’t able to grow and may also be unable to reproduce.
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3. Balanced diet.
Balanced diet is a diet that contains an adequate quantity of the nutrients that we require in a day. A balanced diet includes six main nutrients, i.e. Fats, Protein, Carbohydrates, Fibre, Vitamins, and Minerals.
All these nutrients are present in the foods that we eat. Different food items have different proportions of nutrients present in them. The requirements of the nutrients depend on the age, gender, and health of a person.
Balanced Diet leads to a good physical and a good mental health. It helps in proper growth of the body. Also, it increases the capacity to work. Balanced diet increases the ability to fight or resist diseases.
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4. Crash diet.
A crash diet is a restrictive diet that guarantees quick weight loss. These are extreme diets that promise quick weight loss results in a short period. A crash diet is a short-term, restrictive diet that aims to reduce calorie intake drastically. These diets often limit you to consuming only certain types of foods or liquids, such as juice or soup. Why consume certain types of food? Consuming certain types of food makes it easy to track the calories and creates a calorie deficit, causing rapid weight loss.
Crash diets usually cut out entire food groups, such as carbohydrates or fats, and limit your intake to one or two types of food.
Usually a crash diet involves cutting your daily calorie intake by 50% or more, often to as low as 800 calories a day. Of course, this will differ from person to person, but a crash diet may also take you to well below your basal metabolic rate (BMR), which is the basic amount of calories your body needs to function.
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5. Physical health.
Physical health can be defined as the normal functioning of the body. Representing one dimension of total well-being, it's about how your body grows, feels and moves, how you care for it, and what you put into it.
Maintaining good physical health decreases your risk of developing conditions such as heart disease, stroke and some cancers. Being physically healthy also helps you to manage life's challenges by protecting you against fatigue, injury and illness.
Physical health is closely linked to mental health and an integral part of leading a healthy lifestyle and enjoying life. This is often taken for granted and it isn’t until we are sick, ill or injured that we put the time and energy in to looking after our physical health. It is important to regularly monitor your overall physical health and getting a check-up if you (or someone you know) are concerned.
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6. Mental health.
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act as we cope with life. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood and aging.
Your mental health is also important because it can affect your physical health. For example, mental disorders can raise your risk for physical health problems such as stroke, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease.
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7. How does smoking affect health?
Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.
More than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking. For every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness. Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.
Secondhand smoke exposure contributes to approximately 41,000 deaths among nonsmoking adults and 400 deaths in infants each year. Secondhand smoke causes stroke, lung cancer, and coronary heart disease in adults. Children who are exposed to secondhand smoke are at increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome, acute respiratory infections, middle ear disease, more severe asthma, respiratory symptoms, and slowed lung growth.
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8. Alcohol is a social problem.
Traffic accidents, cardiovascular diseases, divorce, dysfunctional families have one contributory factor in common; alcoholism. Alcoholism is a condition in which a person finds himself or herself addicted or dependent on alcohol. It does not necessarily manifest in obvious ways, but the person loses control over their consumption of the substance.
It has health, social, emotional, physical and psychological ramifications in the alcohol abuser’s life as well as the people around him or her. Since this issue has an adverse impact on society’s well-being, then one must analyze its cause. Every person must take responsibility for his actions, and alcoholism is a result of those choices.
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9. Drugs.
Drugs are chemicals or substances that change the way our bodies work. Some are medicines that help people when doctors prescribe them. Many have no medical use or benefits.
When taken (usually by swallowing, inhaling, or injecting), abused drugs find their way into the bloodstream. From there, they move to the brain and other parts of the body. In the brain, drugs may intensify or dull the senses, change how alert or sleepy people feel, and sometimes decrease physical pain.
Because of the way these drugs work on the brain, they affect the ability to make healthy choices and decisions. Even drinking makes people more likely to get involved in dangerous situations, like driving under the influence or having unprotected sex.
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10. Medical advances.
A medical advance is the generation of information or a discovery of knowledge that improves our understanding in medical science, this is a significant breakthrough that results in an improvement of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Medical advancements can lead to:
• Discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines.
• Medical device and medical technology innovations.
• The application of digital technologies in the medical field.
A significant turning point in the way diseases are diagnosed, treated, or prevented has the potential to extend and save lives. Medical advancements are also vital to society, progression in science reduces the financial burden of disease and protects healthcare systems.
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