Dietary mineral -- Dietary minerals are the chemical elements required by living organisms. Appropriate intake levels of each dietary mineral must be sustained to maintain physical ... > full article

Essential nutrient -- An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal body functioning that can not be synthesized by the body. Categories of essential nutrient include vitamins, dietary minerals, essential fatty ... > full article

List of diets -- List of well-known ... > full article

Food groups -- The food groups are part of a method of classification for the various foods that humans consume in their everyday lives, based on the nutritional properties of these types of foods and their ... > full article

Whole grain -- Whole grains are cereal grains which retain the bran and germ as well as the endosperm, in contrast to refined grains which retain only the endosperm. Whole meal products are made from whole grain ... > full article

Nutrition and pregnancy -- Nutrition and pregnancy refers to the nutrient intake, and dietary planning that is undertook before, during and after pregnancy. Not only have physical disorders been linked with ill-nutrition ... > full article

Carbohydrate -- Carbohydrates are chemical compounds that contain oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon atoms. They consist of monosaccharide sugars of varying chain lengths and that have the general chemical formula ... > full article

Saturated fat -- Saturated fat is fat that consists of triglycerides containing only saturated fatty acids. Diets high in saturated fat correlate in some studies with an increased incidence of atherosclerosis and ... > full article

Leaf vegetable -- Leaf vegetables, also called greens or leafy greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable. Leaf vegetables are typically low in calories, low in fat, high in protein per calorie, high in dietary ... > full article

Malnutrition -- Malnutrition is a general term for the medical condition in a person caused by an unbalanced diet—either too little or too much food, or a diet missing one or more important ... > full article

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Nutrition : Concepts and Controversies (with Nutrition Connections CD-ROM and InfoTrac)
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Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition
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