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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.
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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] ...
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.
The "Basic Seven" developed by the United States Department of Agriculture. Amid high food prices in 1972, Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare developed the idea of "basic foods" that were both cheap and nutritious, and "supplemental foods" that added nutrition missing from the basic foods.
Nutrient density identifies the amount of beneficial nutrients in a food product in proportion to e.g. energy content, weight or amount of perceived detrimental nutrients.. Terms such as nutrient rich and micronutrient dense refer to similar properti
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support and energy to an organism. [2] [3] It can be raw, processed, or formulated and is consumed orally by animals for growth, health, or pleasure.
Opson and sitos were Classical Greek food groups, mainly used for moral education, to teach sophrosyne. Mitahara, a concept of moderate diet found in early-first-millennium Sanskrit texts, categorizes food into groups and recommends eating a variety of healthy foods, while avoiding the unhealthy ones; it also considers foods to have emotional and moral effects.