• Is there a relation between nutritional intake and health status?
  • Amir Shourideh,1,* Zahra Eskandarpour,2 Ardavan Amanat,3 Siavash Pourhossein,4 Parisa Patfat,5 Tara Farazimajd,6
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  • Introduction: How much related do you think a person's health status is to the nutrition they consume? Is it possible to compare this with the relation between a car's conditions and the fuel that it intakes? We are made up of different organs. The building stone of these organs is cell. Which is the smallest unit that is responsible for our chemical and physical characteristicsOf course health status is as well one of our characteristics. So it extremely depends on our cells functioning. But what does our cells functioning depend on? Their action depends on molecules in their reach. The richer their nutritional source is the better they do their functions. Now we primarily understand the importance of nutrition in health status. Human body is like a really complicated device. Each organ is responsible for a special duty. And if there be even any small bug in this huge device, the whole device may stop working. Nutrition is not just responsible for growth and living but they also work in terms of confronting different damages and in terms of maintaining our health status. There are 20 different amino acids that are essential for the body. Human body is just able to make 10 of them so the other 10 must be eaten up and consumed in foods. No animal or plant protein source has all the 10 essential amino acid together. That is why our foods must be diverse and rich in different sources. Proteins and amino acids play different important roles in our body starting from DNA Replication, also including proteins that control cell division cycle and decide when to stop and start mitosis (such as CDK proteins); must of enzymes are protein as well. Foods are divided into 5 groups due to their nutritional content. All of these 5 groups are important: 1. Fats and sugars 2. Dairy products 3. Proteins 4. Carbohydrates 5. Fruits and vegetables. Also there is another grouping for nutrients: 1. Water 2. Minerals 3. Vitamins 4. Proteins 5. Fats 6. Carbohydrates. One big damage that our cells are confronting each day is the oxidative reactions that occur due to presence of highly activated radicals that damage cells and corrupt their functioning. Foods rich in antioxidants will help cells to stay wholesome and in this way we can prevent aging, wrinkles and even cancer.
  • Methods: To prove that nutrition has a big impact on health status, different experiments can be done. For example, we can bring some mice. One group will consume foods rich in different nutrition and the other will intake foods that lack in some nutritional sources. In this way you can examine the result of lack of each nutrition. Materials in this experiment are: mice, a place for separating mice, nutritional sources.
  • Results: Results show that the group which has received diverse nutritional sources live longer are happier and have more energy for daily activities; they are also better in shaped. Each organ works sharper in this group such as heart liver lungs and so on. The muscle weighs are higher in these mice. Bones are denser due to the higher calcium content and receiving enough vitamin D. they are also stronger in defending and fighting pathogens.
  • Conclusion: For sure it is obvious now if you want to maintain a healthy life you need to think again about your diet. your muscles weigh your bones density how your organs function depends on your nutritional intake. If you want to confront aging and improve your defense system you need to uptake more nutritionally valuable foods. Your heart will work better. Even the red blood cells will be safe and sound and contain enough iron. Your enzymes are made up of proteins that is why you need to consume them; you even need them for DNA replication. Your skin will stay younger if you receive enough antioxidants. Your neuron cells need minerals for sending and receiving signals and as you see even small functions in your body depend on the food you eat. If you want to live longer and healthier and receive valuable nutrition.
  • Keywords: Health, nutrition, organ, cells, function.