Concept in Definition ABC

It is called food to any solid or liquid substance that living beings ingest in order to regulate their metabolism and maintain its physiological functions such as that of the body temperature, that is, human beings do need food to replace the living matter that we spend as a result of the activity of the body and because we need to produce new substances that contribute to the development of new tissues that directly help our increase.

But in addition to this strictly physical and survival reason for any species, there is a reason psychological that is also present at the time of feeding, since normally the food will provide us a sensation of gratification and satisfaction once realized. It is very common for a person who did not eat for long hours or did not eat when the body asked, observe a conduct unfriendly and grumpy.

According to the origin they hold, We can classify food into three large groups: vegetable: vegetables, fruits and cereals; animal: meat, milk, eggs and mineral: mineral salts and water.

For example, the carbohydrates found in bread, flours, sugars and pasta that give us energy. For their part, protein, which include dairy, legumes, eggs and meats promote growth and tissue formation. Meanwhile, lipids, fats and oils also do their thing to provide us with a good dose of energy every time we eat them.

What matters most to us of all these foods that we mention are the nutrients or nutritional principles that they show: amino acids, vitamin A, iron, calcium, among others. For example, the starch contained in vegetables, the fat that milk gathers, among others.

To get a good nutrition it is necessary to respect and maintain a Balance in our diet, that is, there must be a balanced mix in correct amounts of everything we mentioned in the previous paragraph.

And finally, the warning. Everyone, should know that food deprivation leads to malnutrition, from there to starvation and from there to death there is a very short road. The lack of food for any organism will be devastating for its conservation, subsistence and development. It is proven that the deficient feeding directly and negatively affects intelligence and the emotion of the people. Unfortunately, many parts of the world have famine and are the proof of all these negative outcomes that we mentioned.