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Christian Nordqvist 2017Nutrition: What is it and why is it important?

, What is nutrition?, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/160774.php

Commonly, nutrition may refer to the food requirements of a patient. Nowadays,


nutrition is referred to us as the metabolism of a person. Nutrition focuses on how to
prevent diseases, conditions with a healthy diet. Also, how certain diseases and
conditions may be caused by poor diet or food intolerances.

Croat Med J. 2006 The Meanings of Health and its Promotion 662–664.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2080455/
Health is defined as the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
Nowadays, three types of definition of health are seem to be existing, first, health is
defined as the absence of any diseases or impairement. Second is that health is the
ability of a person to respond with all the demands of daily life. Third is the state of a
human being having a balance, an equilibrium that an individual has established within
himself and between himself and his social and physical environment.

 Fred H. Wilt 2018


Growth BIOLOGYHTTPS://WWW.BRITANNICA.COM/SCIENCE/GROWTH-BIOLOGY
GROWTH IS THE INCREASING OF CELL SIZE AND NUMBER THAT TAKE PLACE
DURING THE LIFE OF AN ORGANISM. GROWTH DETERMINES THE SIZE AND
SHAPE OF THE ORGANISM. The rate of growth of various components of an
organism may have important consequences in its ability to adapt to
the environment and hence may play a role in evolution. For instance, an increase
in the rate of growth of fleshy parts of the fish fin would provide an opportunity
for the fish to adapt more easily to terrestrial locomotory life than could a fish
without this modified fin. Without disproportionate growth of the fin—ultimately
resulting from random changes in the genetic material (mutations)—the evolution
of limbs through natural selection might have been impossible.

Yamini Durani 2015 Whats In This Article?, About the immune system,
https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/immune.html

The immune system is the body's defense against infectious organisms and other
invaders. Through a series of steps called the immune response, the immune system
attacks organisms and substances that invade body systems and cause disease. The
immune system is made up of a network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together
to protect the body. One of the important cells involved are white blood cells, also called
leukocytes, which come in two basic types that combine to seek out and destroy
disease-causing organisms or substances.
Christian Nordqvist 2016 What is a healthy weight?

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/241371.php

People often compare their weight and shape with those around them, concerned about their weight
being too high or too low, but a healthy weight is not the same for each individual. It
depends on a
range of factors, including age, sex, body type, bone density, muscle-fat-ratio,
overall general health, and height.

The idea of a healthy weight may also differ between countries or cultures. In
the United Kingdom and the United States, a healthy BMI is slightly higher
than, for example, in The Netherlands. If a person in the Netherlands were
aiming to reach a "healthy weight," that weight would lower target weight than
for a person in the U.S.

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