FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID TOWARD HEALTHY BODY Food is necessary to any kind of living organism on earth. Food contain the essential nutrit...
FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID TOWARD HEALTHY BODY
Food is necessary to any kind of living organism on earth. Food contain the essential nutrition that help for growth, body immune system development and brain development.
Nutrition is a biochemical and physiological process, which organism uses food to support life, without nutrition no life.
Nutrition is the study of nutrients in food, how the body uses them, and the relationship between diet, health and disease.
Food pyramid is a representation of the optimal number of servings to be eaten each day from each of the basic food group.
Food guide pyramid is a recognized nutrition that shaped to guide the best pattern to suggest how to eat in a best path.
Food guide pyramid describe the four(4) possible ways to meet up with the necessary 2000 calories of energy needed per day. Which describes as follows:-
1. FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID(4); EAT MOST GRAINS
Grains are the grass family which include wheat, rice, sorghum, millet, maize, and oatmeal e.t.c
Grains most be eaten everyday base on the cultural feed, it's macro nutrients because they make up the bulk of your diet.
All types of grains are good sources of complex carbohydrates and some key vitamins and minerals.
Grains are naturally high in fiber, helping you feel full and satisfied, which makes it easier to maintain a healthy body weight.
Whole grains are also linked to a lower risk of heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers and other health problems
2. FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID (3); EAT MORE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
Fruits and vegetables are good for you and for your health, fruit and vegetable which Include oranges pineapple, apple, banana, spinach, pawpaw, lettuce, vegetable leaf, melon, moringa, avocado, bite leaf e.t.c
Fruit and vegetable is a micronutrient in your diet, which need to be eaten more everyday.
It contain important vitamins, minerals and plant chemicals. They also contain fibre.
There are many fruits and vegetables available and many ways to prepare and cook them.
If you can be able to eat five kinds of vegetables and two kinds of fruits everyday, it will help your health.
Fruits and vegetables can help protect you against cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
3. FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID (2); EAT MODERATE PROTEIN
Protein is essential in the human body been it the food that help to maintain and repair tissues and damage cells in the body. It need to be eaten everyday moderately.
The protein include, fish, meats, beans, eggs, chicken e.t.c. protein contain some certain nutrients, which protein food can be found in plants and animals.
4. FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID (1); EAT LESS FAT AND OIL
Fat and oil are the most abundant lipids in nature. They provide energy for living organism, insulate body organs and transport fat soluble vitamins through the blood.
Fat and oil need to be eaten less in the human body due to its nature in digestion, some fats and oils can cause unsaturated fat.
Fats and oils include cheese, vegetable oil, butter, hard margarine, coconut oil, and palm oil e.t.c all these are nature oil to consume, natural oil are the best to consume.
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