The importance of nutrition including vitamins and minerals

The importance of nutrition and sound health go hand in hand as being under nourished or over nourished which can make you ill. And those people that are not conscious of their calorie intake suffer from obesity. Obesity is the cause of major illnesses such as hypo and hyper glycaemia, hypertension, lower back injuries, arthritis, heart disease, vascular disease and high cholesterol just to mention a few.

For those that add copious amounts of salt to their food will at some time or other suffer the consequences, which could involve having a stroke or heart attack as salt is known to raise the blood pressure. Reducing your intake of excess salt can dramatically reduce the risk of these serious diseases and prolong your life.

Then there are those that live in third world countries that suffer from malnutrition due to the lack of protein, vitamins and essential minerals as well as iodine deficiency which could lead to severe mental retardation in new born infants. Children around the world are affected due to improper nutrition.

Improper nutrition leads to a reduced immune system which leads to chronic infections such as dysentery and diarrhea which inevitably leads to dehydration and then death. I cannot begin to express the importance of nutrition and a well balanced diet that contains all the essential nutrients needed to sustain life. You don't have to go out and buy expensive foods all you have to do is buy foods that are nutritional.

Vitamins play a major role when it comes to nutrition, as the body is not able to produce certain vitamins that are needed for growth and repair. This is the main reason for eating a large variety of foods as these foods have these soluble vitamins that the body needs. These vitamins are only found in plant and animal material. Vitamins also help to regulate the metabolism and convert certain fats into carbohydrates which are needed to form bone and tissue.

If you go online you can find informative tables showing you which foods contain which vitamin and minerals and these tables will also show you how to combine different food as well as the importance of nutrition. Vitamin replacement is a waste of time as most of these tablets and powders are not water soluble so when you take these substitutes they go straight through the system and into the kidneys and urinate them out. The body cannot utilize or digest these replacements if they are not water soluble.

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