All About Diet

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Wikipedia defines diet as the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat.

Many individuals choose the type of food by certain criteria, like:

1. Desired state of health;
2. Morality;
3. Religion;
4. Effectiveness.

Still, it seems that in the past few years more and more people are concerned with their health, when speaking of diets.

The imbalance of consumed products results in either starvation or exercise reserves of adipose tissue (body fat).

Vitamins and minerals are very important (poor intake of them can have dramatic effects on persons health):

1. More than 3 million children are blind because of poor intake of vitamin A;
2. Lake of vitamin C can cause scurvy;
3. Lake of dietary protein can cause childhood disorders like Kwashiorkor and Marasmus;
4. The intake of vitamin D can affect the absorption of other substances like calcium and phosphorus (other two very important elements);
5. It is believed that more than 30% of world's population either has or is at risk for developing iodine deficiency;
6. Heart disease and diabetes are often caused by obesity.