Nutrition and Health Worksheet

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Nutrition and Health Worksheet

Use Ch. 1 of Contemporary Nutrition, Ch. 2 of Visualizing Nutrition, supplemental course materials, the University Library, the Internet, or other resources to answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be 75 to 100 words.

|What is nutrition? Why is nutrition essential to our daily lives? |

|Nutrition is the thing taken in by the body when eating food. Nutrition is essential to our daily lives because it affects our |

|body, and mind. A good nutritional diet usually means good healthily life, it also aids in preventing diseases. 6 categories, |

|carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, water, protein, and fats. These nutrients are necessary for good health and for the body |

|to properly function. These are the main categories that can be broken down to smaller subcategories, nevertheless these are |

|essential to our daily lives. |

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|What is the connection between nutrition and health? |

|Although there is more to good health then nutrition, it is one of the main factors in a healthy individual. Eating a good |

|nutritional diet can help prevent obesity which is linked to a lot of other problems such as heart disease or diabetes. Certain |

|parts of the human body do not work properly if they do not receive the right nutrients. For instance most of our body is water. |

|If we neglect to drink water it will cause dehydration |

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