1. Why do we need to choose our food wisely?

Eating wisely helps prevent chronic diseases like obesity, heart disease, high blood
pressure, and Type 2 diabetes. It is one of the most powerful tools we have to reduce
the onset of disease. The path to improving health through nutrition is to follow a healthy
eating pattern that is right for you.
2. What are the possible reason that affect your food choice?
The key driver for eating is of course hunger but what we choose to eat is not
determined solely by physiological or nutritional needs. Some of the other factors that
influence food choice include:

 Biological determinants such as hunger, appetite, and taste

 Economic determinants such as cost, income, availability
 Physical determinants such as access, education, skills (e.g. cooking) and time
 Social determinants such as culture, family, peers and meal patterns
 Psychological determinants such as mood, stress and guilt
 Attitudes, beliefs and knowledge about food

3. Are you aware of the nutrients you get from food? Elaborate

Essential nutrients are compounds that the body can’t make or can’t make in sufficient
quantity. According to the World Health OrganizationTrusted Source, these nutrients
must come from food, and they’re vital for disease prevention, growth, and good
health.While there are many essential nutrients, they can be broken into two categories:
macronutrients and micronutrients.

Macronutrients are eaten in large amounts and include the primary building blocks of
your diet — protein, carbohydrates, and fat — which provide your body with
energy.Vitamins and minerals are micronutrients, and small doses go a long way. There
are six main groups of essential micronutrients and macronutrients.

4. How would you describe the functions of the different nutrients? What are they?

Nutrition is defined as the intake of food, considered in relation to the body's dietary
needs. Good nutrition - an adequate, well balanced diet combined with regular physical
activity - is a cornerstone of good health. Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity,
increased susceptibility to disease, impaired physical and mental development, and
reduced productivity. The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined
by the availability, processing and palatability of foods. A healthy diet includes
preparation of food and storage methods that preserve nutrients from oxidation, heat or
leaching, and that reduce risk of food-born illnesses.
 5. When do you think carbohydrates and protein become harmful?

If you are not getting enough carbohydrates from your diet, then your body must use fat
and protein for energy. This is why the carbohydrate-restricted diets claim they are great
for weight loss. However, neither protein nor fat is an efficient source of energy.

6. What makes cholesterol bad? Good?

Cholesterol travels through the blood on proteins called “lipoproteins.” Two types of
lipoproteins carry cholesterol throughout the body:

 LDL (low-density lipoprotein), sometimes called “bad” cholesterol, makes

up most of your body’s cholesterol. High levels of LDL cholesterol raise your risk
for heart disease and stroke.
 HDL (high-density lipoprotein), or “good” cholesterol, absorbs cholesterol
and carries it back to the liver. The liver then flushes it from the body. High levels
of HDL cholesterol can lower your risk for heart disease and stroke.

When your body has too much LDL cholesterol, the LDL cholesterol can build up on the
walls of your blood vessels. This buildup is called “plaque.” As your blood vessels build
up plaque over time, the insides of the vessels narrow. This narrowing blocks blood flow
to and from your heart and other organs. When blood flow to the heart is blocked, it can
cause angina (chest pain) or a heart attack.

7. How do organic and inorganic nutrients affects our body?

The organic nutrients are the necessary building blocks of various cellcomponents that
certain organisms cannot synthesize and therefore must obtain preformed.
These compounds include carbohydrates, protein, and lipids. Other organic nutrients
include the vitamins, which are required in small amounts, because of either the
catalytic role or the regulatory role they play in metabolism.

A number of inorganic elements (minerals) are essential for the growth of living
things. Boron, for example, has been demonstrated to be required for the growth of
many—perhaps all—higher plants but has not been implicated as an essential element
in the nutrition of either microorganisms or animals. Trace amounts of fluorine (as
fluoride) are certainly beneficial, and perhaps essential, for proper tooth formation in
higher animals. Similarly, iodine (as iodide) is required in animals for formation
of thyroxine, the active component of an important regulatory hormone. Silicon (as
silicate) is a prominent component of the outer skeletons of diatomaceous protozoans
and similar organisms and is required in them for normal growth.
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