NURS1000 Lecture 9: Lecture 9-nutrition
20 Feb 2019
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Nutrition: basic human need, underpins functioning and is essential to good health. Poor nutrition correlates to poor immunity and therefore likely poor health. Maintaining nutrition relies on sufficient food and fluid intake, a functioning digestive system. The reason good food and drink is important is because these are broken down into nutrients and then the nutrients travel through the blood to where they are needed (tissues/organs) in the body. Factors that affect nutritional needs or ability to receive nutrients: developmental: at certain ages kids can"t eat specific foods often due to lack of teeth and therefore they cannot receive the nutrients that these foods would give them.
