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    This document discusses the main nutrients required for human health: proteins are essential for muscle growth and repair; fats provide energy and aid vitamin absorption; carbohydrates are our primary energy source; minerals are inorganic elements critical for normal body functions; vitamins, including water and fat-soluble varieties, enable important chemical processes; water is necessary for nutrient transport and hydration since the body is 60% water; and fiber is important for digestive health.

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    This document discusses the main nutrients required for human health: proteins are essential for muscle growth and repair; fats provide energy and aid vitamin absorption; carbohydrates are our primary energy source; minerals are inorganic elements critical for normal body functions; vitamins, including water and fat-soluble varieties, enable important chemical processes; water is necessary for nutrient transport and hydration since the body is 60% water; and fiber is important for digestive health.

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    Proteins

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    Joyce Hous
    This document discusses the main nutrients required for human health: proteins are essential for muscle growth and repair; fats provide energy and aid vitamin absorption; carbohydrates are our primary energy source; minerals are inorganic elements critical for normal body functions; vitamins, including water and fat-soluble varieties, enable important chemical processes; water is necessary for nutrient transport and hydration since the body is 60% water; and fiber is important for digestive health.

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    O Proteins - essential to growth and repair oI muscle and other body tissues

    O ,ts - one source oI energy and important in relation to Iat soluble vitamins
    O ,rbohydr,tes - our main source oI energy
    O iner,s - those inorganic elements occurring in the body and which are critical to its
    normal Iunctions
    O 'it,2ins - water and Iat soluble vitamins play important roles in many chemical
    processes in the body
    O ,ter - essential to normal body Iunction - as a vehicle Ior carrying other nutrients and
    because 60 oI the human body is water
    O #ough,ge - the Iibrous indigestible portion oI our diet essential to health oI the digestive
    system

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