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Food and Nutrition

The document discusses key aspects of nutrition, including that food and nutrition provide fuel for the body by supplying energy and replacing nutrients daily. A healthy diet includes fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins, and should consider additional vitamins and minerals that are important for certain groups like pregnant women. Maintaining proper nutrition is important for preventing diseases and health conditions that can be affected by diet, such as hypertension, heart disease, osteoporosis, and some cancers.

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Food and Nutrition

The document discusses key aspects of nutrition, including that food and nutrition provide fuel for the body by supplying energy and replacing nutrients daily. A healthy diet includes fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins, and should consider additional vitamins and minerals that are important for certain groups like pregnant women. Maintaining proper nutrition is important for preventing diseases and health conditions that can be affected by diet, such as hypertension, heart disease, osteoporosis, and some cancers.

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INTRODUCTION:

 The effective management of food intake and nutrition are both key to good
health. Smart nutrition and food choices can help prevent disease. Eating the right
foods can help your body cope more successfully with an ongoing illness. 
Food and nutrition are the way that we get fuel, providing energy for
our bodies. We need to replace nutrients in our bodies with a new
supply every day. Water is an important component of nutrition.
Fats, proteins, and carbohydrates are all required. Maintaining key
vitamins and minerals are also important to maintaining good health.
For pregnant women and adults over 50, vitamins such as vitamin D
and minerals such as calcium and iron are important to consider
when choosing foods to eat, as well as possible dietary supplements.
A healthy diet includes a lot of natural foods. A sizeable portion of a
healthy diet should consist of fruits and vegetables, especially ones that
are red, orange, or dark green. Whole grains, such as whole wheat and
brown rice, should also play a part in your diet. For adults, dairy
products should be non-fat or low-fat. Protein can consist of lean meat
and poultry, seafood, eggs, beans, legumes, and soy products such as
tofu, as well as unsalted seeds and nuts.
 Even if you are getting enough to eat, if you are not eating a balanced diet, you
may still be at risk for certain nutritional deficiencies. Also, you may have
nutritional deficiencies due to certain health or life conditions, Or certain
medications you may be taking, such as high blood pressure medications. People
who have had intestinal diseases or had sections of intestines removed due to
disease or weight loss surgery also may be at risk for vitamin deficiencies.
Alcoholics are also at high risk of having nutritional deficiencies.
Conditions affected by food and nutrition
include
 hypertension: Salt intake affects blood pressure.
 heart disease/high cholesterol: Fatty foods and partial hydrogenated oils can
create plaque in arteries.
 osteoporosis: Low calcium, low vitamin D and excess fat can result in fragile
bones.
 certain cancers: A poor diet and obesity are associated with increased risk of
breast, colon, endometrial, esophageal, and kidney cancers.
Introduction

 Water covers more than two-thirds of the earth’s surface, but mostly salty and
undrinkable. The available freshwater resource is only 2.7% of the available water
on earth but only 1% of the available freshwater (in lakes, rivers and
groundwater) is accessible. 
 Most of the available freshwater resources are inaccessible because they are in the
hidden part of the hydrologic cycles (deep aquifers) and in glaciers (frozen in the
polar ice), which means safe drinkable water on earth has very small proportion
(~3%) in the freshwater resources. Freshwater can also be obtained from the
seawater by desalinization process.
Challenging factors for water supply
systems
 Increasing urban water self-sufficiency: 
 Infrastructure development
 Urban water pricing
 Climate change
 Knowledge gaps
 Efficiency and reliability of a water supply system
 Challenges for water supply and Governance

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