Human Nutrition

• Balanced Diet: getting all the right nutrients in correct proportions
• Diet related to age/sex/activity:

  • Children Below 12: Require more calcium
  • Teenagers: Highest calorie Intake
  • Adults: Balanced meal with less calories
  • Pregnant Women: more iron, calcium and folic acid
  • Males: Generally, require more energy
• Malnutrition = a condition caused by eating an unbalanced diet
• Forms of malnutrition:

  • Overnutrition: balanced diet but eating too much of everything
  • Undernutrition: having too little food
  • Eating foods in incorrect proportions