How can nutrition prevent stress and diseases?

Answer 1

Your body needs certain vitamins and minerals to stay healthy and fit so if you dont have those vitamins and minerals than your body needs your body will ave plaque build up and such illnesses

Answer 2

Because nutrition gives the body fuel to help function properly, including regulating hormones that help ease stress. If the body is under further stress by starvation or lack of nutrition in some form like not enough protein or carbohydrates, that just gives it more strain to have to deal with on top of the physical symptoms of the stress and the mental stress itself. Having good nutrition helps coping with stress easier and gives you one less thing to have to worry about.

Answer 3

An organism requires various substances from the environment in order to grow and thrive. Appropriate levels of various nutrients allow the systems of the organism to function at optimum efficiency.

In the particular case of humans, a healthy diet can prevent diseases of over nutrition (obesity, type II Diabetes, atherosclerosis due to dyslipidemia) and under nutrition (scurvy due to vitamin C deficiency, anemia due to iron deficiency.) An individual who is well nourished will function better and so feel better. They will also have healthier immune function and so be more resistant to infectious disease.

Answer 4

There are many contributing factors to mental stress. Altering your diet to be more healthy can indeed relieve some underlying stress and give you more energy, however, that may just be a fraction of what is stressing you. Consider all aspects of your life!