What are you eating?
Some people eat to live and some live to eat. I believe in eat healthy and live happy. As a Nutrition and Dietetics Major, I hope to write and convey about nutrition, eating habits, dietary guidelines etc., without making it a boring piece of just any other article. So, let’s start with the most basic and common question that comes into our mind, ‘what is Nutrition?’ to define it most scientifically: Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism. It includes food intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism and excretion. Everything went over your head, right? Okay let me put it into simple terms, Nutrition is basically what goes into your body when you eat a certain type of food. For ex, pulses provide abundant protein, proteins help in maintaining growth. So, the nutrition you are getting from the pulses you eat is helping in your