Definitions [5]
Define the following:
Saprozoic
Saprozoic nutrition refers to nutrition in which animals feed on dead or decaying matter.
Define the following:
Vitamin
Vitamins are organic compounds regularly required in minute quantities in the diet for normal metabolism, health, and growth.
Define the following:
Malnutrition
The condition where people become weak and sick due to insufficient and unbalanced diet is referred to as malnutrition.
Define and give one example of a balanced diet.
A balanced diet is a diet that provides all the essential nutrients—carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water—in the right proportions to maintain health, energy, and proper growth.
Example of a Balanced Diet:
A balanced meal could include Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, Vitamins and Minerals and water.
Define balanced diet.
A balanced diet is a diet which contains an adequate amount of all the necessary nutrients like carbohydrate fat protein minerals and vitamins required for healthy growth and activity.
Key Points
- According to WHO, nutrition means taking in food in relation to the body’s dietary needs.
- It includes five main processes: ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation and egestion, which together describe how the body handles food.
Concepts [18]
- Nutrients and Nutrition
- Component of Food
- Carbohydrates
- Diseases Due to Deficiency of Carbohydrates
- Fats (Lipids)
- Diseases Due to Deficiency of Fats
- Proteins
- Diseases Due to Deficiency of Proteins
- Vitamin and Minerals
- Diseases Due to Deficiency of Vitamin
- Diseases Due to Deficiency of Minerals
- Fibre
- Diseases Due to Deficiency of Fibre
- Water
- Diseases Due to Deficiency of Water
- A Balanced Diet
- Nourishment and Malnutrition
- Food Adulteration
