Food Help Us to Maintain Our Health

Everyone is familiar with food is and how it benefits us. Food is anything that we can consume for fulfilling our nutritional requirements. It helps us to grow and is our primary source of energy. But even though we get energy by consuming almost all kinds of food, not every consumable food is good for our body. Some foods are statistically more nutritious compared than others which are low in nutritive value. Some food are more beneficial for our body while some can make us ill. The spectrum of benefits and disadvantage of food is so wide that we are still unable to understand the advantages and disadvantages of all the available food items properly. Nevertheless we don’t give much thought while munching a handful of cashews, biting a piece of steak, or drinking a glass of milk.

A simple way to determine which food is better than the other is by determining its nutrients and calorific value. Food is made up of nutrients such as proteins, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc, sodium, etc. Any food that is obtained from plants or animals contain a combination of the above mentioned nutrients but their proportions vary. Some food items are rich in vitamins while some are rich in fat; some has greater proportions of iron whereas some contains more calcium. The varying combination of these elements and compounds in each food item makes it difficult for us to realize which food item is more nutritious then the other.

Our body requires these elements in the right propitiation's for staying healthy and a majority of diseases and syndromes gets activated when there is either a deficit or excess of these components in our body. Deficiency or overdoes of minerals and nutrients can lead to mild or severe illness and syndromes. Diseases caused by deficiencies or overdose generally don’t occur abruptly and takes a longer time to develop without your notice. For instance if you consume food rich in fat and calories, there are pretty good chances of you suffering from obesity and cardiovascular diseases in the future. Hence determining the nutritive value of your food is important if you desire to stay healthy and look forward to gain most of the food you consume. Perhaps the best way by which you can save yourself from deficiency or overdose is by eating a wide range of food items in the right proportions. Food items that are rich in nutrients and minerals are often recommended by doctors for regular consumption so that we can replenish our body properly.

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