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Why is eating a wide variety of foods important? List 2 water soluble vitamins and list a good food source for each. List 2 fat soluble vitamins and list a good food source of each.

Read "Off the shelf: Is bottled water better?" attached. Read "That controversial liquid refreshment: Water" at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com:8100/legacy/college/smolin/0471268798/food/water.html

What are your thoughts concerning bottled water?
What are the functions of water in the body?

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This solution responds to the questions on nutrition and bottled water controversy. Supplemented with an information describing the functions of water in the body.

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1. Why is eating a wide variety of foods important?

It is important to eat a variety of foods because different types of foods contain different combinations of nutrients and other health benefits, when taken together lead to optimal health. In other words, foods contain combinations of nutrients and other healthful substances. No single food can supply all nutrients in the amounts you need. For example, oranges provide vitamin C but no vitamin B12; cheese provides vitamin B12 but no vitamin C. To make sure you get all of the nutrients and other substances needed for health, you need to choose the recommended number of daily servings from each of the five major food groups displayed in the Food Guide Pyramid (see figure 1 at URL: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/dga/dga95/fig01.html) or the Canada Food Guide (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/hpfb-dgpsa/pdf/food-guide-aliment/view_eatwell_vue_bienmang_e.pdf).

2. List 2 water-soluble vitamins and list a good food source for each. List 2 fat-soluble vitamins and list a good food source of each.

Vitamins serve crucial functions in almost all bodily processes (immune, ...

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