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Healthy Food To Support Healthy Life
Healthy Food To Support Healthy Life
ABSTRACT
Healthy, happy, success and long life are everyone’s dream of being. many functions in human life, moderation and variety becoming very
To have these, proper nutrition is one of the basic needs that must important to compose a healthy diet. If these six principals are put
be met—food composing of nutrients and non-nutrients that will into the habit, then fit, and well-being can be promised so far unless
influence the quality of food. Hence, Food must meet four conditions some other risk factors can affect health. Water has a crucial role in
to be said as healthy food. It has to be adequate, balance in the supporting the body function, and human cannot avoid drink in daily
composition of nutrients, calorie in control, and free or at least within life. Still, beverage drinks can be easily slipped into the hazardous
the safety level of health hazard components. Yet, food does not substrate that will influence on health. Knowledge on nutrigenomic
affect directly on one’s health but the diet, though it takes time from is worth to be applied to have more on the personal approach of how
unhealthy habit into getting the disease or vice versa. Since food has food and diet can affect health.
Faculty of Medicine Universitas INTRODUCTION quality as well as quantity of food, for a while before
Udayana it becomes a disease.8
Long life and Happy can be said as the real under- Therefore, since the most important of food are
lying need in life, and being healthy, especially in the quality and quantity of the content, human shall
life is part of getting all it.1,2 WHO defines health as think whenever they consume any food, what they
a state of complete physical, mental and social well can get from it. Having this said, some consider-
being not just absence from diseases and infirmity.3 ation shall be considered when ingesting and/or
To reach this, nutrition takes a vital role as nutri- providing food are the following the amount, the
tion can bring people into either healthy as well as frequency, the kind, the composition, and the way
unhealthy state.4-6 of cooking and/or processing.10,11 Also, the nutrig-
Nutrients are components in food; foods enomic pattern of any single people sometimes
compose diet and diet influences health. Food essential to themselves explicitly as it can influence
is composing of nutrient and non-nutrient.7 The to their specific health problem, but not to others.12
nutrient components can be grouped into macro-
nutrient which consists of carbohydrate, protein
and fat, and also micronutrient, i.e. vitamins and
NUTRITIONALLY HEALTHY FOOD
minerals. Besides, there are other non-nutrient that
PRINCIPLE
can also be available in food. Hence, some food
can be used as medicine. Both, nutrients in food Food shall be defined as any substance enters to the
supported by the non-nutrient content, when it put human body, ingested and/or eaten and will react
into the habit, will direct the nutrition status and with the body to provide energy for life and activity,
health of human.7,8 building up and/or repairing tissue and regulating
Healthy food shall compose of all nutrients bodily process.8,10,11 The form can be solid or liquid,
and non-nutrients in proper composition. It shall and it can also be simple or complex food. Single
adequately meet the human need to guarantee the means one single meal, while complex means it
best nutrition status of the people when it put into contents several kinds of food.13
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Gde Ngurah Indraguna Pinatih, a daily habit.8 Besides, it shall also be safe and free Within the nutrition point of view, there are
Faculty of Medicine Universitas from any hazardous component that gives harmful three main principles required to say that food
Udayana effect to human health.7-9 belongs to healthy food. Firstly, it has to be
ngurah_indraguna@unud.ac.id Single food does not directly affect human adequate. Adequate here means that the food shall
health, but the daily diet. The onset between provide enough nutrients needed by the body for
Received: 2020-01-09 malnourish and/or nutrient deficiency/excess until the three purposes above. Hence, the amount or
Accepted: 2020-03-22 disease appearance requires a considerable length the portion and the frequency of meal need to be
Published: 2020-04-01 of time. It has to become a habit, ingesting lousy considered.14,15
Secondly, it has to be balanced in nutrient pollutant such as heavy metal and/or free-radical
composition.15 As nutrients can be grouped into species.17,18
two main groups macro and micro and then each
group can also be grouped into, carbohydrate,
ADEQUATE
protein, fat, mineral, vitamin, water, it supposed
to be balanced in all nutrient groups previously Adequacy is connected with the number of nutri-
mentioned.8 Human needs nutrients in a particular ents shall be consumed daily.19 Recommended
number called recommended daily allowance or daily allowance (RDA) or average daily intake
Daily intake. Food taken daily shall compose of all (AI) or in Indonesia, it is called angka kecukupan
necessary nutrients; hence a balanced diet becomes gizi (AKG) has been used to explain the number
very important to be said as healthy.14,15 of nutrients minimally needed by the body. For
Thirdly, the intake calorie from food shall be in energy-producing nutrients, namely, the macronu-
control. Human needs specific calorie to maintain trients compose of carbohydrate, protein and fat,
their life and activity.16 Generally, the calorie intake the total calorie requirement must be firstly calcu-
can be calculated using the formula, and several lated before breaking down into the more specific
formulas can be used to calculate the amount of nutrient needed.20,21 It simply can be calculated
calorie needed by the people.15 based on age, sex, weight and height plus total daily
Single food, either simple, as well as complex, activity. Some formulas can be used to do so. The
does not affect human health unless it has a high micronutrients, the amount of intake shall follow
content of human health hazard, but the diet. One merely to the RDA or AKG, but it can be varying
can eat one or two times of lousy food in nutrient within the safety level.20
content and has not developed any effect on health, Indonesia via the Departemen Kesehatan has
but when it becomes a habit, in one time the disease made a determination of the global nutrients
starts to develop into the clinical phase. However, requirement for common Indonesian population,
when the food composing of a high dose of health namely Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Republik
hazard material, these can be the cause of a partic- Indonesia (PMK) Nomor 28 Tahun 2019 tentang
ular disease. For example, taking extra ice cream angka kecukupan gizi bagi masyarakat Indonesia
one or two cups sill not affect anything, but when and can be downloaded from the website.20
it is taken daily, in one year, it might develop into In practical, since human eat food, not a nutri-
increasing weight or overweight. Similarly, when ent, it is hardly difficult to transfer the nutrient
food composing of very little salmonella poison, requirement into the amount of food intake.22
will not cause any disease, but when the concentra- Therefore, the easiest way to calculate whether the
tion is high beyond human can afford it, it causes amount of food consumed is enough, over or under
typhoid fever.7-9 body requirement, is the body weight and body
Besides, since food composing diet, and nutri- mass index. Bodyweight is the most sensitive way to
tion derived diseases is a chronic disease due to predict nutritional adequacy while body mass index
long term lousy habit in food nutrition, healthy is the reliable tools to measure nutrition status.19,22,23
food shall include variety and moderation. It needs Besides the amount of food consumed,
consideration since human eats food regularly and the frequency of meal will also influence the
variably and in food, there is non-nutrient content intake.4,8,19,22-26 Having the purpose of the healthy
which includes toxin.8,15 Therefore, when people food definition, which concentrate more on the
eats certain limited kind of food for an extended effect of food for wellbeing, food nibbling has
period, and that food contain the toxin, one time, advantages and disadvantages. Nibbling means
that particular person can be intoxicating, due to increasing the frequency of eating or in another
toxin accumulation. Moderation is needed because word, eating more often. Nibbling helps people to
food has several functions besides filling the human control and maintain the blood glucose level and
biological need. Diet can have social meaning, insulin sensitivity. However, it increases the risk of
personal preference and others.17,18 over calorie intake causing overweight or obesity.26
There are some other non-nutrient things need On the contrary, time-restricted feeding which part
to be considered for food to become healthy as the of intermittent fasting is recently introduced for
following it has to be free from toxin either naturally weight loss, glucose tolerance, improve blood lipid
occurred toxin in food,8,18 unnatural toxins develop level, also can delay the neoplastic-prone tissue
from mismanaging food handling, genetically engi- landscape typical of ageing.24-25
neered food that no one knows the effect on health Way of cooking may influence the calorie-dense
except hypothesis that has never been proven and of food. Food cooked with oil will contain more
also contamination from either bacterial, another calorie rather than food prepared with water.8-10
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