Nutrition and Health

Author: Liu Cuige
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: "Food is the first necessity of the people, and health is the first priority for health. Diet is the material basis for maintaining life and ensuring health. This book starts from the perspective of nutrition and health, organically combining the basic theory of nutrition with health concepts and health knowledge, explaining the roles, food sources, and health impacts of seven types of nutrients—proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, water, and fiber—in the human body. It discusses how to achieve health goals through balanced diets. The book also introduces some dietary knowledge, nutritional needs during different physiological periods, scientific meal planning methods, and the relationships between diet and beauty, diet and obesity, and diet and related diseases. Through the introduction of food safety knowledge, it enhances people's awareness of unsafe food, ensuring the 'gatekeeping' against disease entering through the mouth, and reducing dietary risks to a minimum. This book integrates scientific rigor, knowledge, and, connecting theory with practice, making it easy to understand and highly applicable. By reading this book, readers can gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between nutrition and health, transforming scientific dietary habits into conscious actions. It can serve as both a popular science book on nutrition and health and a textbook for public elective courses for college students. The content mainly includes basic knowledge of nutrition; rational nutrition, dietary balance, and some important dietary knowledge; the relationships between diet and beauty, diet and obesity, and diet and some diseases; as well as knowledge introductions on food safety and preventing dietary risks. This book aims to raise people's health awareness, help them master nutrition and health knowledge, pay attention to nutritional health care and dietary balance, and enhance their awareness and ability to guard against unhealthy food. Guided by scientific knowledge, we can ensure the 'gatekeeping' against disease entering through the mouth. This book enables readers to comprehensively and systematically understand various knowledge related to nutrition and health, as well as diet and nutrition. It can also serve as a textbook for public elective courses for college students. If used as a textbook for an elective course, the content can be selected based on the target audience and class hours. "Food is the first necessity of the people, and health is the first priority for health. Diet is the material basis for maintaining life and ensuring health. This book starts from the perspective of nutrition and health, organically combining the basic theory of nutrition with health concepts and health knowledge, explaining the roles, food sources, and health impacts of seven types of nutrients—proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, water, and fiber—in the human body. It discusses how to achieve health goals through balanced diets. The book also introduces some dietary knowledge, nutritional needs during different physiological periods, scientific meal planning methods, and the relationships between diet and beauty, diet and obesity, and diet and some diseases. Through the introduction of food safety knowledge, it enhances people's awareness of unsafe food, ensuring the 'gatekeeping' against disease entering through the mouth, and reducing dietary risks to a minimum. This book integrates scientific rigor, knowledge, and, connecting theory with practice, making it easy to understand and highly applicable. By reading this book, readers can gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between nutrition and health, transforming scientific dietary habits into conscious actions. It can serve as both a popular science book on nutrition and health and a textbook for public elective courses for college students. The content mainly includes basic knowledge of nutrition; rational nutrition, dietary balance, and some important dietary knowledge; the relationships between diet and beauty, diet and obesity, and diet and some diseases; as well as knowledge introductions on food safety and preventing dietary risks. This book aims to raise people's health awareness, help them master nutrition and health knowledge, pay attention to nutritional health care and dietary balance, and enhance their awareness and ability to guard against unhealthy food. Guided by scientific knowledge, we can ensure the 'gatekeeping' against disease entering through the mouth. This book enables readers to comprehensively and systematically understand various knowledge related to nutrition and health, as well as diet and nutrition. It can also serve as a textbook for public elective courses for college students. If used as a textbook for an elective course, the content can be selected based on the target audience and class hours.