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In order to be healthy, people should eat balanced diet. Balanced diet cost very little, but gives much. The diet must be prepared in such a way that is appetizing, palatable and digestible.
Nutrients includes;
🍥 Proteins
🍥 Carbohydrates
🍥 Fat/Oil
🍥 Sodium
🍥 Pottasium
🍥 Iron
🍥 Vitamins
🍥 Vitamins A
🍥 Vitamins B
🍥 Vitamins C
🍥 Vitamins D
🍥 Vitamins E
🍥 Victamins K
🍥 Roughages
🍥 Water
SOURCES OF NUTRIENTS
🍘 Proteins = meat, fish, milk, egg, etc
🍘 Carbohydrates = Cassava, yam, sweet potatoes
🍘 Fat/Oil = palm oil, fatty milk, egg yolk
Sodium = common salt
🍘 Iron = liver, okra, spinach, eggs, green banana
🍚VITAMINS
🍘 vitamins A = paw-paw, carot, tomatoes, cod liver oil etc
🍘 Vitamins B = Thimine B, riboflavin B2 and niacin corn, groundnut, beans, liver yeast
🍘 Vitamins C = orange, tangerine, grape, pineapple, tomatoes
🍘 Vitamins D = Sunshine on the skin, oily fish
🍘 Vitamins E = leafy green, vegetables, whole green cereals, egg, liver
🍘 Vitimins K = green leafy vegetables=is an antihaemorhagic vitamin
🍘 Roughages = garden egg grape, vegetable orange
🍘 Water = drinking water, beverages milks
Ordinary water is tasteless, colourless, and odourless
FUNCTIONS OF NUTRIENTS
Proteins 👉 body building, repair of body tissues rapid growth etc
Carbohydrates 👉 Energy to perform activities.
Fat/Oil 👉 Energy given, supply of heat.
Sodium 👉 Treat goiter
Potasium 👉 For body fluids eg blood, urine.
Iron 👉 Blood formation, helps body to resist diseases.
VITAMINS
Vitamis A 👉 For eye sight, prevent night blindness.
Vitamins B 👉 Protection agains sor particularly at the end of the mouth.
Vitamins C 👉 For healing bleeding gums, and teeth, skin and; and also digestion.
Vitamins D 👉 Forms strong bones scare away bow legs in children and eastomacia in adult.
Vitamins E 👉 An antioxidant to retard the destruction of other nutrients by oxidation. The body needs a little quantity of it.
Viatamins K 👉 It prevent excessive lose of blood or bleeding.
Roughages 👉 It aids digestion. Its prevents constipation.
Water 👉 It regulates body temperature. Its quenches taste.
In order to be healthy, people should eat balanced diet.
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