Doctors and nutrition experts tell you to eat a ‘balanced’ diet, but this does not mean eating the same amount of each type of food. You need to eat more of some foods than others to meet your body’s needs. For a balanced diet, the variety of foods you eat should work in harmony with [...]
How food is digested The nutrients your body needs for energy, maintenance and repair – including amino acids, glucose, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals – must first be extracted from food by the process of digestion. Digestion begins in your mouth as you chew the food you are eating to break it up into smaller [...]
Think of your body as a mechanism made up of billions of tiny chemical factories linked in an endless process of utilising energy and performing such functions as nerve transmission and producing vital enzymes (body substances made from proteins that break down foods and regulate metabolism). Something as complicated as the human body must inevitably [...]
One of the most versatile and popular foods for all people and especially children is the banana! Originally from Malasia , these were brought to India by travellers and merchants and thrived there for some time.Incoperated into many dishes , in a climate that made them easy to grow, they become not so uncommon.These bananas [...]