Holistic nutrition looks into providing all the necessary and appropriate foods to the body required for metabolism, growth, repair and regeneration of cells (and tissues and organs).

HOLISTIC nutrition is about developing a healthy balanced diet to promote optimum growth (in children), health, and healing while taking into account the person as a whole, and his peculiar locality and circumstances. It is an integral part of holistic health.

Holistic nutrition looks into providing all the necessary and appropriate foods to the body, such that all the nutrients, water and energy required for metabolism, growth, repair and regeneration of cells (and tissues and organs) become available.

There are thousands of metabolic biochemical energetic processes occurring in the body, which is in fact a very complex and busy biochemical factory, working 24 hours every day until it dies.

Food provides nutrients that can be generally categorised into:

Macronutrients, which include carbohydrates, protein and fats.

Micronutrients, which include vitamins and minerals.

Fibre, which is technically not a nutrient, but is important, especially for bowel health.

Probiotics (also technically not a nutrient), which are friendly living bacteria that keep the bowel (and the vagina in women) healthy.

In general, most of us face the problem of excess calorie intake because we have become much less physically active compared to when we were younger, and therefore, we now burn fewer calories.

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Holistic nutrition