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Heather Ainsley  ECB Publishing, Inc.  In many ways the human body runs like a machine, with countless mechanisms all playing their own important roles to keep everything running smoothly. Like any machine, the human body needs fuel, and like all animals, mankind gets its fuel from the foods we eat. It isn't enough to simply eat, however – to maintain a properly functioning system the body needs fuel that is efficient, useful and beneficial to its functions. Not just any old fuel will do. In short, the fuel a person consumes needs to be nutritious. Nutrition is defined as, “the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life.” While n