1. How does nutrition contribute to wellness (be sure to define this term)?

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Nutrition is a science that deals with study of nutrients in the food in relation to health, well being and disease of an organism. Nutrients are molecules present in the food that all of us need to produce energy, grow, develop & reproduce. Nutrition also emphases on how diseases & clinical conditions can be prevented or decreased with a healthy diet. Nutrients are broadly classified into two groups: ,

Macronutrients:-
- Carbohydrates, Proteins & Fats
Micronutrients:-
- Minerals & Vitamins

Balanced nutrition contribute greatly to overall health & wellness. Good nutrition helps to maintain healthy weight, improves immunity, which in turn reduce the susceptibility to disease, reduces the risk of chronic cardiovascular diseases, lifestyle diseases & even certain cancer. So good nutrition is important for both mental & physical health. The importance of balanced nutrition is that it lower high cholesterol levels in the blood, lowers blood pressure, improves your bodies capacity to fight infections, more over it improves your energy level. balanced nutrition stimulates & protects all the systems in the body, which leads to improved health. If the food consumed is more but contains nutrients it results in type to diabetes.

Unbalanced diet results in consumption of more calories which the main cause of obesity & overweight, which lead to noncommunicable diseases such as hypertension, stroke & diabetes.

Malnutrition increases the risk of various infectious diseases like malaria, measles, diarrhoea. It can even impair with growth & development of children's. Vitamin & mineral deficiencies can lead to poor health, especially in children's & pregnant women's. acute micronutrition weakens the immune system which in turn results poor health. Malnutrition during childhood can lead to long-term health problems, educational challenges and limited work opportunities. Micronutrition and micronutrient deficiencies are more common in refugees and displaced people, as sufficient food not readily accessible.

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