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  2. Eating - Wikipedia

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    Empirical studies have indicated that anxiety leads to decreased food consumption in people with normal weight and increased food consumption in the obese. [19] Many laboratory studies showed that overweight individuals are more emotionally reactive and are more likely to overeat when distressed than people of normal weight.

  3. Food - Wikipedia

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    Humans generally use cooking to prepare food for consumption. The majority of the food energy required is supplied by the industrial food industry, which produces food through intensive agriculture and distributes it through complex food processing and food distribution systems.

  4. Diet (nutrition) - Wikipedia

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    An eating disorder is a mental disorder that interferes with normal food consumption. It is defined by abnormal eating habits, and thoughts about food that may involve eating much more or much less than needed. [13] Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. [14]

  5. Human food - Wikipedia

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    Human food is food which is fit for human consumption, and which humans willingly eat.Food is a basic necessity of life, and humans typically seek food out as an instinctual response to hunger; however, not all things that are edible constitute as human food.

  6. Meat - Wikipedia

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    Beef is the food with the largest carbon footprint, mainly due to methane production from cows. The rising global consumption of carbon-intensive meat products has "exploded the global carbon footprint of agriculture," according to some top scientists.

  7. Consumption - Wikipedia

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    Consumption may refer to: Resource consumption; Tuberculosis, an infectious disease, historically known as consumption; Consumer (food chain), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms; Consumption (economics), the purchasing of newly produced goods for current use also defined as the consuming of products Consumption function, an economic ...

  8. Conspicuous consumption: Why the worlds of food and ... - AOL

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    Food and fashion seem an unlikely pairing. While encouraging the consumer consumption of luxury goods, high fashion has long glorified thinness, with eating deemed almost taboo.

  9. Nutrition - Wikipedia

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    Scientific analysis of food and nutrients began during the chemical revolution in the late 18th century. Chemists in the 18th and 19th centuries experimented with different elements and food sources to develop theories of nutrition. [1] Modern nutrition science began in the 1910s as individual micronutrients began to be identified.