Good nutrition enhances your Good nutrition enhances your quality of life and helps you prevent quality of life and helps you prevent disease. disease.

NUTRITION:NUTRITION: THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE BODY TAKES IN AND USES FOOD.BODY TAKES IN AND USES FOOD.

NUTRIENTS:NUTRIENTS: SUBSTANCES IN FOODS THAT SUBSTANCES IN FOODS THAT YOUR BODY NEEDS TO GROW, TO REPAIR, YOUR BODY NEEDS TO GROW, TO REPAIR, AND TO PROVIDE ENERGY.AND TO PROVIDE ENERGY.

•CarbohydratesCarbohydrates

•ProteinsProteins

•FatsFats

•VitaminsVitamins

•MineralsMinerals

•WaterWater

Carbohydrates:Carbohydrates: are the starches are the starches and sugars present in food. and sugars present in food.

Proteins have many functions:Proteins have many functions:

- Help make new cells.- Help make new cells.

-Help make and repair tissues.-Help make and repair tissues.

- Provide energy.- Provide energy.

ProteinsProteins are nutrients that help build and are nutrients that help build and maintain body cells and tissues.maintain body cells and tissues.

FatsFats are a type of lipid, a fatty substance are a type of lipid, a fatty substance that do not dissolve in water.that do not dissolve in water.

VitaminsVitamins are compounds that help are compounds that help regulate many vital body processes regulate many vital body processes

MineralsMinerals are substances that the body are substances that the body cannot manufacture but are needed for cannot manufacture but are needed for forming healthy bones and teeth and forming healthy bones and teeth and regulating many vital body processes.regulating many vital body processes.

ImportantImportant mineralsminerals include:include:

-Calcium -Phosphorus –Magnesium -Calcium -Phosphorus –Magnesium -Iron-Iron

WaterWater helps to maintain many bodily helps to maintain many bodily functions. functions.

- Enables you to swallow and digest - Enables you to swallow and digest foods. foods.

- Absorb other nutrients, and eliminate Absorb other nutrients, and eliminate wastes.wastes.

Water makes up around 65% of the Water makes up around 65% of the body.body.

It’s important to drink at least 8 cups of It’s important to drink at least 8 cups of water a day to maintain health.water a day to maintain health.

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