Thursday, July 23, 2009

Proper Nutrition for Lifestyle Diseases Prevention



Nutrition is the process which we take food and use it to live and grow. It is the key to a progressive country or a nation. Health should be in high standard of alert and should be done or taken care of first. We must do it for the sake of our present and also for our future generation. Everyone of us should be watchful and go for suitable thing to do.

All of us should be in full seriousness because Lifestyle diseases are very harmful. It can kill us. Diabetes, heart attack and high-blood pressure are some examples of it.

The biggest single item that we take everyday is FOOD. Food is a substance consisting of carbohydrates (which is an organic compound composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) and protein (organic compound made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain) to sustain life. Food affects our overall sound condition. Both food nutrition and health cannot be separated.

If our nutrition is not 'perfect', it is what we call "malnutrition." It results to weaken or damage of our health. It interfere with the progress or action of development and physical growth. But through proper and good nutrition, we can promote good health to our nation and it results happiness to our life.