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Are You Just Filling Your Tummy?
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: Health |
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: 20 July 2008 07:00 |
by: Susie Dieet
The Proper Way to Diet
The importance of a well balanced diet is very important. The goal of this article is to answer the questions you may have about a well balanced diet.
A well balanced diet must include the correct amount of vital nutrients. These nutrients include carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, mineral salts, and fiber. Water is also vital and may be more important that all the other nutrients.
A balanced diet must contain an appropriate amount of fat, carbohydrates, protein, vegetables, fruit, minerals, salts, vitamins, and fibers. A balanced diet should also include plenty of water.
Proteins contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sometimes sulphur also. Proteins are very important for our body. It is needed for growth and repair. Proteins cannot be directly absorbed by our blood, thats why our digestive system converts it into amino acids. There are over 20 different types of amino-acids.
Proteins are also sometimes used for energy. The liver helps to excrete nitrogen form our body. This process forms urea which the kidneys then add to the urine.
Vitamins are required by the body but the body does not produce its own vitamins. Therefore we must obtain vitamins through outside sources such as food and supplements. Although the body can survive for a certain amount o time without vitamins certain diseases and even death can result from a pro longed vitamin deficiency. The body requires small amounts of vitamin A, B, C, D, and E.
Our body requires mineral salts in traces, although, the requirement of mineral salts in our body is much more than that of vitamins. Mineral salts consists of iron, required to make hemoglobin, calcium, required for healthy teeth, bones and muscles
About The Author
Susie Dieet is one of the most well known Diet experts and has done a lots of research on the subject. To get more information visit: http://www.rndiet.com.
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