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  2. Healthy diet - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) makes the following five recommendations with respect to both populations and individuals: [10]. Maintain a healthy weight by eating roughly the same number of calories that your body is using.

  3. Very-low-calorie diet - Wikipedia

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    The routine use of VLCDs is not recommended due to safety concerns, but this approach can be used under medical supervision if there is a clinical rationale for rapid weight loss in obese individuals, as part of a "multi-component weight management strategy" with continuous support and for a maximum of 12 weeks, according to the NICE 2014 guidelines. [12]

  4. Healthy food - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 23 November 2024, at 13:09 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Food - Wikipedia

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    Carbon, oxygen and hydrogen are absorbed from the air or water and are the basic nutrients needed for plant survival. [30] The three main nutrients absorbed from the soil for plant growth are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, with other important nutrients including calcium, sulfur, magnesium, iron boron, chlorine, manganese, zinc, copper ...

  6. Frozen food - Wikipedia

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    Tunnel freezing is a variant of air-blast freezing where food is put onto trolley racks and sent into a tunnel where cold air is continuously circulated. Fluidized bed freezing is a variant of air-blast freezing where pelletized food is blown by fast-moving cold air from below, forming a fluidized bed. The small size of the food combined with ...

  7. Chinese food therapy - Wikipedia

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    Chinese food therapy (simplified Chinese: 食疗; traditional Chinese: 食療; pinyin: shíliáo; lit. 'food therapy', also called nutrition therapy and dietary therapy) is a mode of dieting rooted in Chinese beliefs concerning the effects of food on the human organism, [1] and centered on concepts such as seasonal eating and in moderation.

  8. Pasteurization - Wikipedia

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    Pasteurized milk in Japan A 1912 Chicago Department of Health poster explains household pasteurization to mothers.. In food processing, pasteurization (also pasteurisation) is a process of food preservation in which packaged foods (e.g., milk and fruit juices) are treated with mild heat, usually to less than 100 °C (212 °F), to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life.

  9. Plant nutrition - Wikipedia

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    The total essential plant nutrients include seventeen different elements: carbon, oxygen and hydrogen which are absorbed from the air, whereas other nutrients including nitrogen are typically obtained from the soil (exceptions include some parasitic or carnivorous plants). Plants must obtain the following mineral nutrients from their growing ...