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  2. Nutrition - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Human nutrition - Wikipedia

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    Human nutrition deals with the provision of essential nutrients in food that are necessary to support human life and good health. [1] Poor nutrition is a chronic problem often linked to poverty, food security, or a poor understanding of nutritional requirements. [2]

  4. MyPlate - Wikipedia

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    MyPlate is the latest nutrition guide from the USDA. The USDA's first dietary guidelines were published in 1894 by Wilbur Olin Atwater as a farmers' bulletin. [4] Since then, the USDA has provided a variety of nutrition guides for the public, including the Basic 7 (1943–1956), the Basic Four (1956–1992), the Food Guide Pyramid (1992–2005), and MyPyramid (2005–2013).

  5. Food pyramid (nutrition) - Wikipedia

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    MyPlate is the current nutrition guide published by the United States Department of Agriculture, depicting a place setting with a plate and glass divided into five food groups. It replaced the USDA's MyPyramid guide on June 2, 2011, concluding 19 years of USDA food pyramid diagrams.

  6. Nutrient - Wikipedia

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    By definition, phytochemicals include all nutritional and non-nutritional components of edible plants. [36] Included as nutritional constituents are provitamin A carotenoids, [37] whereas those without nutrient status are diverse polyphenols, flavonoids, resveratrol, and lignans that are present in numerous plant foods. [38]

  7. Healthy diet - Wikipedia

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    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-processed foods or sweetened beverages .

  8. Preventive nutrition - Wikipedia

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    Preventive Nutrition is a branch of nutrition science with the goal of preventing, delaying, and/or reducing the impacts of disease and disease-related complications. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is concerned with a high level of personal well-being , disease prevention , and diagnosis of recurring health problems or symptoms of discomfort which are often ...

  9. Nutritionism - Wikipedia

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    Nutritionism is a paradigm that assumes that it is the scientifically identified nutrients in foods that determine the value of individual food stuffs in the diet. [1] In other words, it is the idea that the nutritional value of a food is the sum of all its individual nutrients, vitamins, and other components.