THE NUTRITIVE FUNCTION

Nutritive function is a self-perfective immanent act. Although all human bodies are subject to destruction, animal’s bodies can preserve itself through the use of nutrition. As the cells breakdown the food it supplies energy for the body, beating of the heart, and breathing. Nutrition is the organism’s method for preserving integrity. Nutrition not only furnishes an organism with energy needed to sustain it in its incessant vital processes but it also supplies an organism with the basic materials which cells need for their own repair: cells are built out of food. Furthermore, nutrition implies the elimination of waste materials. If the cell wants to remain alive it has to constantly repair itself. Nutrition is the preservation of the organism as a vital act, therefore, nutrition is a self-perfective immanent act.