Nutrition and its importance in our life

Shagun Sirohi
1 min readMay 9, 2021

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Basically the process of giving nutrients to our body is called Nutrition. Nutrition is study of the nutrients in foods, how our body uses them, and relationship between the diet, health and disease. The most important thing in the process of the nutrition is nutrients. Food provides the nutrients and energy which you need to be healthy.

Generally organisms takes the nutrition in mainly two ways are-

1. Autotrophic mode of nutrition

2. Heterotrophic mode of nutrition

🅪 Autotrophic mode of nutrition — In this mode of nutrition organisms make or produces their own food. Mainly it is self production of the organic food. Generally plants follow autotrophic mode of nutrition.

🅪 Heterotrophic mode of nutrition — In this mode of nutrition organisms do not make their own food. The take their food from autotrophs like plants.

Ex. human beings, animals etc.

In previous lines we have talk about mode of taking nutrition now we will talk about nutrients which is most essential part of nutrition. Nutrients is the food which we eat which provides us many essential components. To live a healthy lifestyle we must follow a proper diet called balanced diet. For more information

https://www.healthhubonline.xyz/2021/05/what-is-nutrition.html

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Shagun Sirohi
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