provide energy.
Оne of the most important functions of
nutrition is building the body. The food eaten each day helps to maintain the structure of the adult body, and to replace worn out cells of the body. The third function of nutrition is to regulate activities of the body. It includes regulation of such varied activities as: beating of the heart, the body temperature, muscle contraction, control of water balance, clotting of blood, removal of waste products from the body.
The fourth function of nutrition is to improve our body’s resistance to disease.
The social function of nutrition.