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Nutrients from food are absorbed by the body as it passes through the digestive system

1. Nutrients are essential for cell growth, maintenance and repair.
   
2. Nutrients provide energy to enable your body to function efficiently.
   
3. Nutrients, along with fibre and water, are essential to your good health.
   

Although nutrients can work alone, each depends upon the others to be the most effective. The main nutrients are the macronutrients, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats – and the micronutrients, vitamins and minerals.

What Macronutrients Do

Macronutrients are essential for good health as they assist in breaking down carbohydrates and fats, which provide energy to the body and also assist in the absorption of protein, which provides the building blocks necessary for cell growth and repair.

What Micro Nutrients Do

Micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals do not in themselves provide energy, but macronutrients depend on them to regulate the release of energy from food.

Vitamins are organic substances

1. Vitamins activate enzymes, which act as catalysts to speed up biological reactions that take place in your body.
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   posted by Administrator on Sunday, June 15th, 2008 at 12:50 pm and is filed under Nutrition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Balanced diet, good nutrition and good health go hand in hand. A balanced diet (good food) is the best source of good nutrition and good nutrition is the best guide to good health, these friendly relationships get very complex in the real world. A balanced diet means consuming the right types and amounts of foods to supply nutrition and energy for maintaining and supporting body’s normal functions, growth and development. Further a balanced diet is simply supplying your body with nutrients* such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, mineral salts and fibre in right proportions by consuming food from each of the four basic food groups

1. Breads and cereals
   
2. Fruits and vegetables
   
3. Milk and milk products and
   
4. Meat and meat alternatives
   

There is more than one way to eat correctly. The secret is choosing a variety of healthy foods from all of the four groups; this is very old information but still is still very important. There could be variations in the amount allowed from each group, but the need to consume from each of these food groups is essential because no one group of foods can supply all of the nutrients.

1. Breads and cereals: You need at least four servings per day in this group which includes cereals, pasta and bread products such as muffins, rolls and crackers. One slice of bread equals one serving.
   
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   posted by Administrator on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 1:50 pm and is filed under Nutrition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.