Food Chemistry and Food Microbiology

Food Nutrition and Health

The effective management of nutrition and food intake are both keys to good health. There are six categories of nutrients that the body needs to acquire from food: Protein, carbohydrates, fat, fiber, vitamins, minerals and water. It includes the intake of food, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism, and excretion. The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determines by the availability, processing, and palatability of foods. A healthy diet includes the preparation of food and storage methods that preserve nutrients from oxidation, heat or leaching, and that reduces the risk of food-borne illnesses. A poor diet shows an injurious impact on health, causing deficiency diseases such as blindness, scurvy, anemia, preterm birth, stillbirth, and cretinism; health-threatening conditions like obesity and metabolic syndrome and such common chronic systemic diseases as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes.