Diet, Nutrition, and Health Micayla McKiernan Professor Seminoff Bio 319 1/22/16 On a daily basis, we consume meal after meal, and snack after snack, but what actually happens when we are consuming all of this food everyday? Our body works in an amazing way to allow us to eat food, break it down, and digest it so that we can receive the daily nutrients that we need to survive and stay healthy. The World Health Organization defines health as, a state of complete physical, mental, and social well- being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (Nordqvist, n.d.). To go more in depth, we may wonder how our body digests and absorbs all of these nutrients to help us maintain our health as mentioned. Digestion involves breaking organic compounds...