06.10.2021

 What is nutrition and nutrients?

Recently I have started online course for shokuiku adviser, so I would like to share my learning.

This time, I would like to post basic of nutrition as the first time.

• What is Nutrition and nutrients?
• What nutrition is aiming for?
• What is relationship between Nutrition and living environment?

What is Nutrition and nutrients?

Nutrition refers to the "state of maintaining the body," and nutrients refer to the "substances for purpose of maintaining the body."

Humans take necessary substances from their daily diet into the body and use them as energy, and generate tissues such as muscles, bones, and internal organs.

This nutrition is essential for the growth of the human body as well as the maintenance of body function.

In addition, eating is a necessary activity not only for humans but also for all living things, so it is an important role for living things to grow. In this way, maintaining the body while utilizing the substances contained in food is called nutrition.

Whether or not what you eat is digested and absorbed will vary greatly depending on the type.

Even if you eat it, it is excreted before it is digested, so there is no point in eating it.

However, although humans eat meat and vegetables, they also change depending on heredity and the environment in which they are raised.

Depending on the living environment, it may be suitable for meat or vegetarian.

Understanding them and combining nutrients to lead to good health will be the realization of nutrition.

What nutrition is aiming for?

While studying nutrition, simply learning the function of each nutrition will not be effective.

Therefore, the goal of nutrition is to acquire the knowledge to combine various nutrients that appear in this course to create a diet that suits the human body.

You will also need to be widely aware of the illnesses caused by each culture, lifestyle and nutritional abnormalities. 

It is always important to keep in mind the benefits of nutrition and purpose of health, and think about how you can achieve good health.

Japanese is the one of longevity, and I believe there is something to help people to stay healthy, this is my purpose of sending message.

What is relationship between Nutrition and living environment?

Humans have obtained foods such as meat, fish and vegetables in every way.

We are eating the ingredients we have obtained, but how to eat them is varies greatly depending on the living environment.

Various factors such as the climate, environment, and ethnic rules of the place are involved to form the eating habits.

The following four are the elements.

• Body (health, appetite, taste)

• Eating habits (eating habits, eating behavior, awareness of eating habits)

• Food production (food production / distribution / economy / manufacturing)

• Cooking (home cooking, school lunch, restaurant cooking)

By creating various combinations of these four elements for each palce, the products unique to that place were born.

Even in Japan, the temperature varies greatly depending on the land, and the way of life changes depending on the people who live in various places such as mountains and the sea.

If we divide it in more detail, "physical aspect" and "food production aspect" are the subjects of research in the natural sciences, and "eating habits aspect" and "cooking aspect" are studied in the social science classification.

In this course, we will mainly study the effects of nutrition on the body, but keep in mind that such a relationship with life is also important for nutrition.

English is my second language, so you may find incorrect sentences.

It would be great help if you leave a comment for me. 

Thank you for reading!