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To be able to loose weight may not be a big deal, but to look your best while you are doing this is more important. You definitely do not want to have a sallow skin, nails chipping and hair falling in clumps because you do not have enough nutritional intake in your food. Proper dieting is very important to ensure that your health stays in good form while you are trying to loose weight.  

What is proper dieting?

The body needs certain essential nutrients to be able to function properly. The organs in the body have to have certain kinds of fuel to make them do their work and if they are starved this will not happen. There is no point in loosing weight and allowing the rest of your system to just pack up with the strain of trying to cope with a diet that is starving it. 

Nutrients that are needed for the body

Each part of the body is enriched with a certain type of food and this plays a very important part in keeping it in good form and working condition.

Vitamin A is required for a glowing healthy skin and for your eyesight. It is also required for the immune system and for healthy teeth and strong bones. Vitamin A is found in dairy products, liver and eggs and in vegetables like pumpkin, carrots, sweet potatoes, oranges, apricots, and green leafy vegetables. 

The various vitamin Bs like B1, B2, B3, B6 and B12 are very essential for nerve function and metabolism, skin and vision, to make red blood cells and for the nervous system. You will be able to get your daily quota of these vitamins from meats, poultry, fish, cereals and lentils, vegetables and fruits. 

Vitamin C is an antioxidant that helps your body to assimilate iron and take care of your immune system. You should eat citrus fruits, papayas, strawberries, mangoes, goose berries, vegetables like cabbage and bell peppers, tomatoes and lettuce to provide your system with enough antioxidants. 

For calcium absorption vitamin D plays an important role. The natural form of this vitamin is sunlight. Milk, fish, liver and egg yolk are rich in vitamin D. Vitamin E takes care of the walls of the cells and is an antioxidant. You can get your dose of this vitamin from nuts, whole grains, green vegetables, soybean and polyunsaturated oils. 

Carbohydrates are the main source of energy and provide the fuel for the body. Proteins are essential for the building of tissues and repairing functions. They help in the body producing anti bodies to fight infection and are basically required for almost every part of the body to perform its functions normally. 

A general idea of the essential nutrients

This probably will give you a general idea of why the body needs the different kinds of nutrients and how the lack of any one of them could create disharmony and malfunction of the various organs. So by proper dieting you need not starve the body but can loose weight without jeopardizing your health.