---

The consumption of a poor diet, lacking some of the essential nutrients for the proper functioning of the body, has serious consequences on health, compromising people's quality of life. Conditions such as malnutrition, delayed growth and development, and chronic fatigue, represent consequences associated with an unbalanced, insufficient, but, above all, incomplete diet. Prolonged maintenance of diets with these characteristics leads to progressive damage to the body and the generation of systemic anomalies, which compromise the functions of organs, devices and systems of the body. The inclusion of vitamins and proteins in the diet is of vital importance. They are essential nutrients so that the body can function optimally. Because the body cannot synthesize them, the incorporation of these nutrients in the diet is decisive. Each one fulfills different functions in the body. Vitamins regulate cellular functioning; have a leading role in growth and development and stimulation of the immune system. While proteins actively participate in the repair and production of cells, the formation of tissues, as well as in metabolic and regulatory processes. Its deficiency can result in alterations in growth and development, the manifestation of chronic diseases, disabling conditions and even cause death, in cases of severe malnutrition.