Define Nutrition
Nutrition is a science that cuts across several scientific disciplines, of which one is 'biochemistry'. It is the science that relalks food to the functioning of the living organism. Nutrition includes the intake of'food, digestion and absorption of food,transport and assimilation of nutrients, metabolism, liberation of energy and elimination of wastes. It, in fact, encompasses all the synthesis essential for growth, maintenance and reproduction. Biochemist$ as per definition, is the chemistry of living organisms that covers all the chemicala reactions occurring in our body. Biochemistry explores the functioning of living organisms from a molecular and cellular perspective.