Nutrition, Normal and Therapeutic, for Health and Longevity

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Abstract

Life and nourishment are inextricably linked. Human beings need to lead an eat-to-live life, with balanced diet ensuring optimum physiological functioning, health and longevity. In today’s time of knowledge era, food awareness becomes indispensable. The function that nutrients performs in providing energy, growth and maintenance and the role normal and therapeutic diets play to promote health and quell disease is immense. These alphabets of Nutrition are a ‘must to know’ for people making healthy food choices.