Healthy Food

By Saira Akhtar

Introduction:

For a healthy diet you need to add all the nutrients in your food so to this, protein plays an important role for our health. It is the combination of amino acids that are very much needed by our bodies to develop muscles, provide health to your skin, nails and internal organs. As you already know that the sportsman and athletes are highly recommended to take food with proteins as rich diets to keep healthy and fit.

Protein Foods:

There are many foods available which have a high protein to fulfill our body needs. Among them are meat, eggs, milk, beans, nuts and seeds. Human body needs different level of proteins and for this purpose many procedures are there to measure the utilization and retention of protein in our body. Among them are net protein utilization, biological value etc which are use to examine that in which amount of protein are necessary for our body.

Requirement of proteins in our diet:

This is the common issue that how much protein needed for a healthy diet in a day. Furthermore, demands are also vary on different thing, like how much it is needed for child growth and development, in pregnancy or breasted for child nourishment etc. three guidelines are suggested to measure the protein intake which is intake per body weight, absolute intake, and intake as energy. If there is not enough energy supplied by the body likes in starvation, then this is the protein that fulfills the energy needs.

Deficiency and Excess use of protein food:

Many developing countries facing this deficiency issue and this become a serious cause of illness and death. There are lot of diseases occur by protein deficiency among them some are mental retardation, nutrition disorder, and growth and development problems in child. We should eat different types of nutrients to keeps us healthy. Excess of everything may cause some serious problems. Many researchers discover that excessive use of protein cause a loss of calcium in excretion process, or there may also causes a kidney disease which usually develop by excessive intake of protein.