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Diet (nutrition) A selection of magnesium-containing food consumed by humans. The human diet can vary widely. In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. [ 1] The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons (with the two often being related).
Eating. Amandines de Provence, poster by Leonetto Cappiello, 1900, which shows a woman eating almond cookies. Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food. In biology, this is typically done to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and nutrients and to allow for growth.
Circular dendrogram of feeding behaviours. A mosquito drinking blood ( hematophagy) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste) A rosy boa eating a mouse whole. A red kangaroo eating grass. The robberfly is an insectivore, shown here having grabbed a leaf beetle. An American robin eating a worm.
Nutrition. An Amblypodia anita (purple leaf blue butterfly) gathering nutrients from guano. Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It provides organisms with nutrients, which can be metabolized to create energy and chemical structures.
A healthy diet is a diet that maintains or improves overall health. A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition: fluid, macronutrients such as protein, micronutrients such as vitamins, and adequate fibre and food energy. [ 2][ 3] A healthy diet may contain fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and may include little to no ultra ...
Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food. [ 2] It is classified as an eating disorder but can also be the result of an existing mental disorder. [ 3] The ingested or craved substance may be biological, natural or manmade. The term was drawn directly from the medieval Latin word for magpie, a bird subject to much folklore ...
Durophagy. Durophagy is the eating behavior of animals that consume hard-shelled or exoskeleton -bearing organisms, such as corals, shelled mollusks, or crabs. [ 1] It is mostly used to describe fish, but is also used when describing reptiles, [ 2] including fossil turtles, [ 3] placodonts and invertebrates, as well as "bone-crushing" mammalian ...
This glossary of biology terms is a list of definitions of fundamental terms and concepts used in biology, the study of life and of living organisms.It is intended as introductory material for novices; for more specific and technical definitions from sub-disciplines and related fields, see Glossary of cell biology, Glossary of genetics, Glossary of evolutionary biology, Glossary of ecology ...