Nutrition is the way that any living organism provides food for its cells. Animals – including humans – must eat food, then digest it until it becomes a complex soup of chemicals nutrients, which are then distributed to body cells in the blood.
Balanced and imbalanced diets
A balanced diet is one that contains the right combinations of nutrients in the appropriate quantities to maintain health. Malnutrition results from any imbalance. People of developed countries enjoy a life where fat and sugar are relatively cheap and in plentiful supply. Over consumption of foods containing such nutrients is the cause of some of the commonest diseases that blight these people,
