Nutrition should be understood as nourishing or being nourished, that is, seeking health. There are several explanations for the meaning of nutrition: the human body absorbs nutrition from food to support the body; The human body absorbs necessary substances from the outside to maintain its growth, development and other life activities; The human body absorbs nutrients needed to maintain growth from the outside; The process by which the human body absorbs nutrients to maintain life. In short, the whole biological process of food intake and utilization by human body in order to maintain life activities such as growth, development, metabolism and repair is called nutrition. The subject that studies this biological process and its related factors is called nutrition. A branch of nutritional biology.
Therefore, the meaning of nutrition does not refer to matter, nor is it a material noun, nor is it a synonym for nutrients. Nowadays, many people don't understand the meaning of nutrition correctly and use inappropriate words, such as adequate nutrition, rich nutrition and high nutrition. We should correctly change it into adequate nutrition, rich nutrition and high nutritional value. In addition, some people use nutrition and hygiene phrases, which is also wrong, because there is no hygiene problem in nutrition. Because food has many health problems, it is correct for us to use food hygiene phrases. We can't be arrogant.
The word "nutrition" is not a foreign word. Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, said in "On Health Preservation" that "the living raise it so that it can relax and work". "Nutrition" was also called "nourishing" in ancient times. Until now, the word "Yang Rong" is still used in Japan.
Camp: management and construction. Rong: Prosperity. Maintenance: maintenance, replenishment. Nutrition refers to the process that the body ingests, digests, absorbs and utilizes food or nutrients to maintain normal life activities. In the past century, western medicine was introduced into China, and a discipline similar to nutrition was translated as "nutrition". In fact, the inherent traditional Chinese medicine nutrition has a history of more than 2,000 years, which is self-contained and permeates all disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine.
Chinese dietotherapy is a subject that uses food to protect health, prevent and treat diseases, or promote the recovery of the body and delay aging under the guidance of Chinese medicine theory. It is an important part of Chinese medicine, just like medication, acupuncture, massage, qigong and guidance. In a sense, China's nutrition plays a more important role in the fields of preventive medicine, rehabilitation medicine and geriatrics.