food

“Food”: The New Definition
According to Ohio Department of Taxation-2004, On and after July1, 2004, “food” means substances, whether in liquid, concentrated, solid, frozen, dried or dehydrated form, that are sold for ingestion or chewing by human and are consumed for their taste or nutritional value. “Food” does not include alcoholic beverages, dietary supplements, soft drinks or tobacco.

Importance of Food
This hub importance of food gives you brief knowledge of food and its importance to our health and food essential for our body and also provides you menu for health building.
Food plays very vital role in maintaining proper health and also helps in prevention and cure of diseases. Good nutritive food makes health, but at the same time bad or unhealthy food gives rise to several diseases. Our cells, tissues and all organs works properly only with nutritious food which we eat. All body functions metabolic, hormonal, mental, physical or chemical cannot be performed by the body without nutritive food. Food provides us with important nutrition which is important in cure of disease .Bad food is responsible for lowered immunity system of body
Human cells need 45 chemical components and other elements which are called essential nutrients and these all must be present in adequate healthy food, Oxygen and water are the two and other 43 are classified in 5 main category i.e. Proteins , fat ,carbohydrates , minerals and vitamins these all nutrients are vitally important for managing our body functions .
Many researchers’ claims that various diseases are caused by essential nutrients under supply, but they also claim these diseases can also be corrected when all the nutrients are supplied, in a proper way.
A well-balanced, nutritive and correct diet is thus of utmost importance for the maintenance of good health and the healing of diseases.
Such a diet obviously should be made up of foods, which in combination would supply all the essential nutrients. (http://suven.hubpages.com/hub/Importance-of-Food/ November 24, 2013/1:35pm)