Food and Health: Nutrition Science and Technology

Nutrition is the science that studies the effect of nutrients on the growth, reproduction and maintenance of the body, including health and disease. A healthy diet is largely achieved by the preparation and storage of food in a manner conducive to the preservation of nutrients and quality. Various deficiency-related diseases arise because of an unbalanced diet that does not consist of the appropriate nutrients in the right proportions. These include scurvy, anemia, blindness, goiter, etc. S...