NUTRIENTS

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In order to be healthy, people should eat balanced diet. Balanced diet cost very little, but gives much. The diet must be prepared in such a way that is appetizing, palatable and digestible.

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Nutrients includes;

🍥 Proteins

🍥 Carbohydrates

🍥 Fat/Oil

🍥 Sodium

🍥 Pottasium

🍥 Iron

🍥 Vitamins

🍥 Vitamins A

🍥 Vitamins B

🍥 Vitamins C

🍥 Vitamins D

🍥 Vitamins E

🍥 Victamins K

🍥 Roughages

🍥 Water

SOURCES OF NUTRIENTS

🍘 Proteins = meat, fish, milk, egg, etc

🍘 Carbohydrates = Cassava, yam, sweet potatoes

🍘 Fat/Oil = palm oil, fatty milk, egg yolk

Sodium = common salt

🍘 Iron = liver, okra, spinach, eggs, green banana

🍚VITAMINS

🍘 vitamins A = paw-paw, carot, tomatoes, cod liver oil etc

🍘 Vitamins B = Thimine B, riboflavin B2 and niacin corn, groundnut, beans, liver yeast

🍘 Vitamins C = orange, tangerine, grape, pineapple, tomatoes

🍘 Vitamins D = Sunshine on the skin, oily fish

🍘 Vitamins E = leafy green, vegetables, whole green cereals, egg, liver

🍘 Vitimins K = green leafy vegetables=is an antihaemorhagic vitamin

🍘 Roughages = garden egg grape, vegetable orange

🍘 Water = drinking water, beverages milks
Ordinary water is tasteless, colourless, and odourless

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FUNCTIONS OF NUTRIENTS

Proteins 👉 body building, repair of body tissues rapid growth etc

Carbohydrates 👉 Energy to perform activities.

Fat/Oil 👉 Energy given, supply of heat.

Sodium 👉 Treat goiter

Potasium 👉 For body fluids eg blood, urine.

Iron 👉 Blood formation, helps body to resist diseases.

VITAMINS

Vitamis A 👉 For eye sight, prevent night blindness.

Vitamins B 👉 Protection agains sor particularly at the end of the mouth.

Vitamins C 👉 For healing bleeding gums, and teeth, skin and; and also digestion.

Vitamins D 👉 Forms strong bones scare away bow legs in children and eastomacia in adult.

Vitamins E 👉 An antioxidant to retard the destruction of other nutrients by oxidation. The body needs a little quantity of it.

Viatamins K 👉 It prevent excessive lose of blood or bleeding.

Roughages 👉 It aids digestion. Its prevents constipation.

Water 👉 It regulates body temperature. Its quenches taste.

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In order to be healthy, people should eat balanced diet.

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