Food and Nutrition in the Lens of the End User

Rich soils and plant health are key to nutritious foods. The effective management of food intake and nutrition monitoring are both essential to good human health. Smart nutrition and food choices can help pre-empt the acquisition and spread of disease; eating the right foods may help one’s body cope more successfully with an ongoing illness; and understanding good nutrition and paying attention to what one eats may help maintain or improve one’s health.

What Is Good Nutrition?

Food and nutrition are the ways that one’s body gets fueled with energy…  providing energy throughout the body.  As humans, we need to replenish nutrients in our bodies with a new supply on a daily bases.  Water remains an important component of  our nutrition; other required elements include fats, proteins, and carbohydrates at measurable and moderate levels, while also maintaining key vitamins and minerals for optimal health. For pregnant women and adults over 50, the D- vitamins along with minerals such as calcium and iron are important to consider when choosing key foods and possible dietary supplements.

A healthy diet includes a considerable amount of natural foods; a sizeable portion of a healthy diet should consist of fruits and vegetables, especially ones that are red, orange, or dark green; likewise whole grains, such as whole wheat and brown rice, are strong considerations for a healthy diet. For adults, dairy products while important, should be non-fat or low-fat; and protein may consist of lean meat and poultry, seafood, eggs, beans, legumes, and soy products, as well as unsalted seeds and nuts.

AGRIFERT’s take: Key to nutritious foods are rich soils with adequate soil elements for  crops to grow and ensure plant health. Helping to provide food growers with quality fertilizers — soil and plant specific fertilizer recommendations represents a good start for intake of healthy nutritious foods by end users of grown crops.