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I bet you’ve never taken the time to consider what your nutritional needs may be, or the importance that nutrition has on your health. Did you know that if the brain does not have enough protein does not develop properly, or if a woman with a healthy body does not have enough flax oil, omega 3 and omega 6, your metabolism will not function properly and it will be more likely to gain weight? All our nutritional needs are reduced to our eating habits, good or bad, with differing consequences depending on us to use.

Nutrition applied to our everyday lives means that we need to keep our body in a healthy state. Nutrition has taken important in many countries due to policies about our daily food needs and determining what is healthy and what is dangerous for consumption. Likewise, today it has begun to use nutrition as a kind of preventive medicine for certain diseases, ailments and lead a healthy life.

Now what is our responsibility for nutrition? Do we know what our requirements, how to satisfy and how to find real nutritional value in our foods? I’m not sure you understand nutrition in all its dimensions. In general we tend to relate it to the intake of vitamins or fortified cereals and milk and in the context that we need “nutritional value” of our food choices. But what nutrition really means when we apply to our daily functions? Continue Reading »