Essays on Nutrition

Too much of something can potentially cause the opposite effect. Food is our source of energy. It what makes our bodies strong and the source of energy, especially healthy food, we are meant to eat specific percentages of every nutrient every day, but we exceed…

Our sleep quality is affected by multiple factors, including our eating habits. Depending on what you eat before going to bed you will sleep better or worse. It is important that you carefully select the food you are going to eat for dinner. Being the…

There are a lot of us struggling with weight issues and do not know how to get healthier. Nutritionists recommend that eating small meals in intervals of times is good for weight loss. Usually we try to full up our plates and stomach with a…

Encouraging healthy dietary habits and positive lifestyle factors are undeniably the most substantial non-pharmacologic factor for the deterrence and management of causative aspects of irritable bowel syndrome. The ingestion of probiotics in right ratio and curtailing certain foods has posed encouraging favorable impacts on the…

It seems that in the last decade or so, an increasing number of Americans have made a conscious effort to lead healthier lifestyles. This is probably due to the abundant amount of research that supports the fact that balancing a healthy diet and an active…

Infant. An infant is also known as a newborn or baby. A child is considered an infant until the age of one. Many young people think taking care of an infant is an easy job. Many things go into caring for infants. Nutrition, hygiene, and…

Vegetarian diets can cause the death of animals too. There are many animals such as opossum, rock dove, house sparrow, European starling, black rat, Norway rat, house mouse, Chukar, gray partridge, ring-necked pheasant, wild turkey, cottontail rabbit, gray-tailed vole, and numerous species of amphibians that…

Yes, we should be vegetarians Overgrazing livestock hurts the environment through the soil, compaction, erosion, and harm to native plants and animals. Roughly 70% of the 11 western states in the United States including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, are grazed by livestock. Vegetative…

Our Daily Food Intake Requirements What do we really need as far as daily food intake? Are we determining this need based on calorie needs alone, or do we factor in our vitamin and mineral needs? If you were to ask the average person, the…

Lentil is one of the cool season grain legume and vital source of nutrition worldwide. The intense climate change over the past decades result in wrong calculation of yield in lentil (Porch et al., 2013). The direct selection of yield is difficult because of lower…