Role of Health and Nutrition in Biology Anthropology

One of aims of this study was familiarity of people with identifying of body situation (thinness, fatness, etc.) by BMI. The paper mentions to the explanation about the nutrition and its role on people’s healthiness and effect of it on other social and economic factors of the society. It also increases the common knowledge of people about their nutritional and healthiness conditions by using of food graph guidance and BMI table. These matters are the aims of this paper. Nutrition is one of the factors of common health and economic development in society. Those countries which know better about this knowledge can use its benefits – health of body and increasing of lifetime. They know that inappropriate nutrition brings growth deduction, increases diseases and boredom, decreases mind and body creativity, and indifference. It not only decreases sound human resources, but it increases useless human resources also. Food is a solid or liquid material, which releases energy and calorie after digestion and causes the treatment of tissues, growth, and adjusting of vital activities of the body. The chemical combination of human’s food includes proteins, fats, vitamins, carbohydrates, minerals, and water. These materials are necessary for growth and health of the body.