Eat Right Series: Nutrition, From Food

Author: Sen Yan et al
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Publish Date: 2007-01-24
Features: Nutrition plays a very important role in maintaining human health. Good nutrition can keep people energetic and ensure physical and mental well-being. If nutrition is insufficient, it cannot meet the needs of the body's activities, leading to malnutrition, reduced immunity, and frequent illnesses. If nutrition is excessive, it can also trigger various diseases, causing what are known as "modern civilization diseases." Only by properly balancing nutrition can we provide the body with the necessary substances for labor, maintaining life, regulating body temperature, and adjusting physiological functions. According to nutritionists, our bodies require six major nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins, and water. Although these nutrients have different properties, their sources are the same—they all come from food. This book provides the basis for people to make reasonable dietary combinations, not only including the nutritional characteristics of various foods but also dishes made primarily from these foods. We hope that this book can become a practical household reference.