Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating

Introduction

The health and proper functioning of the human body depends on the nutrition and food that it intakes on a daily basis. For many people, food and nutrition seem to have the same meaning but they are different concepts. Food is the substance that we take from the environment and consume whereas nutrition is the set of processes that allow our bodies to use the nutrients in substances to perform their functions. Food is the combination of all natural and industrial products we consume to fill a physiological need (hunger).

Good nutrition should be tailored according to the age, sex, ...