The Importance Of Food Means For The Human Body

Literature Review What is electricity for homes, what is gasoline for cars, what is battery for smartphones, that’s what food means for human body? Food can be as simple as single ingredient, or as complex as homemade gourmet recipe. When someone look at a dish, it can be seen as one item on a plate but it contains many nutrients. Humans need energy to survive, beside that need also the nutrients to be healthy, or heal if any illnesses occurs. There is thousands of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals that each has different benefits to the body. People can be weak or sick if any nutrient is missing in the daily diet. Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA) is differ from generations and genders.
Different ethnic groups has different eating behavior. …show more content…
Why are we eating? What are we eating? What is the purpose of eating, enjoyment, appetite, or need of energy? Human body is self-sufficient organism that generate its own energy like a reactor using the food and beverages as a source of intake. Human body needs energy to heal, act, react and survive. But humans doesn’t intake food and beverages just for energy, but for satisfaction both stomach and eyes. Human being needs a specific amount of energy depends on the sex, age and also Body Mass Index (BMI) to function properly. The body needs energy also for daily movements such as walking, thinking, working, resting as well as sleeping, even for converting intakes to usable energy. The presentation of food nourishes first eyes and then the nose by how it smells, then the tongue by its taste and finally the stomach by its content of calories to convert into usable energy. Some of the ingredients dissolve in the stomach faster than other, and that changes the mood of the person as well. Sometimes the taste of the food is defers depending on the heath of the body. If the person got some kind of illness like cold or flu, the nose doesn’t operate properly, and the taste cannot be determined properly. The reason for that is the human body works like reactor and all the organs are part of the reactor, everything has to work properly to have fully functional and have full satisfaction, which means one part cannot satisfy without …show more content…
There is millions of people in the world and all of them is depended to different ethnic groups. They lives different habitat. The food preferences are different for each group. It is because of their religion, their culture, the area they live in makes the variety of food choices and eating habits. Some people depends on their education be aware about food and nutrition but some of them are very deliberative about nutrition. Some people are very carefully handle the food and using the correct temperatures for cooking and storing on the other hand some people don’t even know anything about what could be happen if you store everything together or what would cause if the meat doesn’t reach to the specific temperature while cooking? Nowadays food allergies increasing very fast. Some people has nuts allergies, some of them shellfish, some other has diary or gluten allergies. In this case food handling and storing becomes more important. The restaurant owners and the employee who works in the restaurant for cooking stations know how to cook, how to store or how to serve for the people who has allergies? But the people, who doesn’t cook at home, who doesn’t care about kitchen stuff, who works mostly in the office and eat only either junk food or restaurant food are be aware about all kind of safe information about food handling. Also they don’t know much about food allergies and foodborne illnesses what it