national nutrition month is a special health awareness campaign that is held every march
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National Nutrition Month is a special health awareness campaign that is held every March. Created by
the American Dietetic Association, the event is dedicated to bringing attention to various aspects of
nutrition. This includes the importance of making informed food choices as well as developing and
maintaining good eating habits. Apart from that, the campaign also works towards building awareness
around the need for regular physical activity. The campaign was established in 1973, when it was just a
week-long event. By 1980, national interest in nutrition had increased and so the week-long event was
extended to a monthlong campaign.
Why It's Important?
National Nutrition Month isn't 'just another health thing'. The fact is that the majority of diseases that
affect Americans today can be traced back to bad nutrition and unsound eating habits. Apart from that,
a number of chronic conditions can be greatly improved by making healthy eating choices. By opting for
a nutritionally sound diet, your body immediately gains access to higher e nergy levels. By breaking
down components like carbohydrates, proteins, amino acids, vitamins and minerals, the body can repair
and replenish itself. Unhealthy or junk foods don't provide anything that the body can use - apart from
that; it needs to work twice as hard to push those extra toxins out of the body.
There is a very simple way to see how this works in real life. After a person has done a workout or
played a hard game of basketball, the best thing they can do is drink water. Not only does it quench the
thirst, it also re-hydrates the body and replenishes the mineral salts that were lost through sweating.The worst thing to do is have a soft drink. Its high sugar content actually robs the body of water and can
cause muscles to cramp. If a person has had a soda after a long run, chances are that they will end up
being thirstier with a bad leg cramp later on. Today it is probably harder than ever to eat right, especially
when fast foods seem like a more convenient option to a healthy meal. But there are a number of tips
you can keep in mind to incorporate more nutrition into your daily diet.
Nutrition Tips
You can celebrate your own health and National Nutrition Month by keeping a few helpful health hints
in mind. First of all, think fresh. Stock up on fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts. Store these in small
containers in your fridge so that they are easily accessible when you want a quick snack. You can also
take them with you to work or even if you're just going to take a long drive. Snacking on fruits, nuts and
vegetables is a much healthier choice as they are fat and sugar free. Unlike junk food, snacking onhealthy foods will actually kill hunger pangs rather than just mask them.
Most people tend to create their meals around the meat dishes they eat. Instead of doing this, try
reducing the portions of meat and starch and increase the portions of fresh vegetables. Incorporating
whole grains and cutting out things like ketchup and creamy salad dressings is also good. Using fresh
herbs and spices for seasoning can not only be a tastier option, it's nutritionally sound as well. It's also a
good idea to drink more water - avoid drinking artificially sweetened fruit juices or sodas. The more
water you drink, the more toxins get flushed out of your body.
In situations where it just isn't possible to eat healthy, try and eat as healthy as you can. For example,
instead of burgers, order a grilled cheese sandwich. Eating in a nutritionally sound way might be a little
hard at first but you'll feel the difference right away. Celebrating National Nutrition Month is an
effective way to get your health back on track.
Why It's Important?
National Nutrition Month isn't 'just another health thing'. The fact is that the majority of diseases that
affect Americans today can be traced back to bad nutrition and unsound eating habits. Apart from that,
a number of chronic conditions can be greatly improved by making healthy eating choices. By opting for
a nutritionally sound diet, your body immediately gains access to higher energy levels. By breaking down
components like carbohydrates, proteins, amino acids, vitamins and minerals, the body can repair and
replenish itself. Unhealthy or junk foods don't provide anything that the body can use - apart from that;
it needs to work twice as hard to push those extra toxins out of the body.
There is a very simple way to see how this works in real life. After a person has done a workout or
played a hard game of basketball, the best thing they can do is drink water. Not only does it quench the
thirst, it also re-hydrates the body and replenishes the mineral salts that were lost through sweating.The worst thing to do is have a soft drink. Its high sugar content actually robs the body of water and can
cause muscles to cramp. If a person has had a soda after a long run, chances are that they will end up
being thirstier with a bad leg cramp later on. Today it is probably harder than ever to eat right, especially
when fast foods seem like a more convenient option to a healthy meal. But there are a number of tips
you can keep in mind to incorporate more nutrition into your daily diet.
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Nutrition Tips
You can celebrate your own health and National Nutrition Month by keeping a few helpful health hints
in mind. First of all, think fresh. Stock up on fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts. Store these in small
containers in your fridge so that they are easily accessible when you want a quick snack. You can also
take them with you to work or even if you're just going to take a long drive. Snacking on fruits, nuts and
vegetables is a much healthier choice as they are fat and sugar free. Unlike junk food, snacking on
healthy foods will actually kill hunger pangs rather than just mask them.
Most people tend to create their meals around the meat dishes they eat. Instead of doing this, try
reducing the portions of meat and starch and increase the portions of fresh vegetables. Incorporating
whole grains and cutting out things like ketchup and creamy salad dressings is also good. Using fresh
herbs and spices for seasoning can not only be a tastier option, it's nutritionally sound as well. It's also a
good idea to drink more water - avoid drinking artificially sweetened fruit juices or sodas. The more
water you drink, the more toxins get flushed out of your body.
In situations where it just isn't possible to eat healthy, try and eat as healthy as you can. For example,
instead of burgers, order a grilled cheese sandwich. Eating in a nutritionally sound way might be a little
hard at first but you'll feel the difference right away. Celebrating National Nutrition Month is an
effective way to get your health back on track.
Thenounvegetable usually means anedibleplant or part of a plant other than asweetfruitorseed. This typically means theleaf, stem, or root of a plant.However, the word is notscientific, and its meaning is largely based onculinaryandculturaltradition. Therefore, the application ofthe word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. For example, some people considermushroomsto be vegetables even though theyare not plants,
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Some vegetables can be consumed raw, some may be eatencooked, and some mustbe cooked in order to be edible. Vegetablesare most often cooked insavoryorsaltydishes. However, a few vegetables are often used indessertsand other sweet dishes, suchasrhubarb pieandcarrot cake.As anadjective, the word vegetable is used in scientific and technical contexts with a different and much broader meaning, namelyof "related to plants" in general, edible or not as in vegetable matter, vegetable kingdom, vegetable origin, etc.
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"vegetable" as "plant grown for food" was not established until the 18th century.[5]
In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of aplantthat contains itsseeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such asfoodpreparation, fruit normally means thefleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such
asapples,oranges,grapes,strawberries,juniper berriesandbananas. Seed-associated structures that do not fit these informalcriteria are usually called by other names, such asvegetables,pods,nut, earsandcones.Inbiology(botany), a "fruit" is a part of aflowering plantthat derives from specifictissuesof theflower, mainly one or moreovaries.Taken strictly, this definition excludes many structures that are "fruits" in the common sense of the term, such as those produced bynon-flowering plants (like juniper berries, which are the seed-containing femaleconesofconifers
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develop from other plant tissues close to the fruit (accessory fruit, or more rarely false fruit or pseudocarp), such ascashewfruits. Often the botanical fruit is only part of the common fruit, or is merely adjacent to it. On the other hand, the botanical senseincludes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such asbeanpods,cornkernels,wheatgrains, tomatoes, thesection of afungusthat producesspores[2], and many more. However, there are several variants of the biological definition of fruitthat emphasize different aspects of the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits.
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Fruits (in either sense of the word) are the means by which manyplantsdisseminateseeds. Most plants bearing edible fruits, inparticular,coevolvedwithanimalsin asymbiotic relationshipas a means forseed dispersalandnutrition, respectively; in fact, manyanimals (includinghumansto some extent) have become dependent on fruits as a source of food.
[4]Fruits account for a substantial
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