Healthy Lifestyle

How Nutrients Work

Nutrients from food are absorbed by the body as it passes through the digestive system.

Nutrients, such as those found in Amway’s NUTRIWAY, are essential for cell growth, maintenance and repair. They provide energy to enable your body to function efficiently, and, along with fibre and water, are essential to your good health.

Although nutrients can work alone, each depends upon the other to be the most effective. The main nutrients are the macronutrients, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats - and the micronutrients, vitamins and minerals.

Macronutrients are essential for good health. They assist in breaking down carbohydrates and fats, which provide energy to the body as well as assisting in the absorption of protein, providing the building blocks necessary for cell growth and repair.

Vitamins and minerals do not in themselves provide energy, but macronutrients depend on them to regulate the release of energy from food.

Vitamins are organic substances that activate enzymes, which are proteins that act as catalysts to speed up biological reactions that take place in your body. Your body produces a certain amount of vitamins D and K, but all other vitamins come from your diet or supplements such as Amway’s NUTRIWAY.

Minerals are inorganic substances that originate from rocks and ores and enter the food chain through the soil.

• We get minerals either by eating plants grown on mineral-rich soil or by eating animals that have fed on these plants.
• Calcium, magnesium and phosphorus are the major constituents of bone.
• Sodium and potassium control your body's water balance.
• Other minerals (chromium, iron, and magnesium) are needed for various chemical processes to take place in the body.
• Omega Fatty Acids
• Phytonutrients, also referred to as phytochemicals, are compounds that act as a natural defence system in plants, and that also have a beneficial effect on human health.