Cooking
Chemistry explains how food changes as you cook it, how it rots, how to preserve food, how your body uses the food you eat, and how ingredients interact to make food.
Chemistry and Safe, Abundant Food and Water:
- Food growers use chemistry to apply fertilizers that deliver essential nutrients to soil, resulting in a wholesome, abundant food supply—without fertilizers, the world food supply would shrink by one-third!
- Food growers also use chemical compounds to eradicate a plethora of disease-carrying pests that compete for our food supply.
- The World Health Organization estimates that diseases associated with dirty water kill at least 6,000 people every day. Chlorine chemistry is the most effective weapon against waterborne bacteria and viruses—that’s why water treatment facilities across the world rely on this basic element to clean and disinfect drinking water.
- Medicine
You need to understand basic chemistry so you can understand how vitamins, supplements, and drugs can help or harm you. Part of the importance of chemistry lies in developing and testing new medical treatments and medicines.
Chemistry and Health Care:
- Chemotherapy and other drugs now are delivered more accurately on plastic patches and dissolving discs, and nanotechnology can deliver drugs to specific cells.
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