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Diet: In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons (with the two often being related). Although humans are omnivores, each culture and each person holds some food preferences or some food taboos. This may be due to personal tastes or ethical reasons. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy. Complete nutrition requires ingestion and absorption of vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids from protein and essential fatty acids from fat-containing food, also food energy in the form of carbohydrate, protein, and fat. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in the quality of life, health and longevity.
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SEP 16, 2017
Videos
How a man smells may be an indicator for his love life. That's what scientists are saying based on data showing that wom
...
SEP 14, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
The latest dieting trend sweeping the Silicon Valley is so extreme that some may liken it to self-inflicted torture. Peo
...
SEP 13, 2017
Plants & Animals
Squirrels are known for their love of nuts; they pick up all different kinds from the ground and then cache them away fo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 04, 2017
Microbiology
Researchers have identified a gene involved in the complex relationship between our circadian rhythm, our metabolism, an
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 02, 2017
Videos
Sugar is present in a lot of foods, for a variety of reasons. Of course, it adds flavor, can balance tartness and provid
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 02, 2017
Immunology
If you have an autoimmune disease, your risk of heart disease automatically goes up. From the Hospital del Mar Medical R
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 29, 2017
Cancer
It’s no secret that obesity is a risk factor for several health conditions, including cancer. But specific to canc
...
AUG 29, 2017
Cardiology
Heart disease is one of those health problems that stems from a complicated mixture of factors. Preventing heart disease
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 28, 2017
Microbiology
There is a lot of research that has linked the community of microbes we carry in our bodies to our health, it seems that
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 28, 2017
Cardiology
First discovered in 1979, natriuretic peptides (NPs) play a variety of roles in the body, some not yet understood. But a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 27, 2017
Videos
For Nazca boobies, a seabird that inhabits the Galapagos islands, there is no sympathy among siblings; these birds pract
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 26, 2017
Immunology
The body can’t make omega-3 fatty acids on its own, which is why nutrition scientists stress the importance of obt
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 26, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Too much of anything can be a bad thing. In the case of protein and protein supplements, too much can be fatal. The New
...
AUG 25, 2017
Cancer
Nearly half of American adults take some form of daily vitamin. The market is saturated with a dizzying selection of bra
...
AUG 22, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Almonds have been known to lower levels of bad cholesterol, new works shows they may have other benefits.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 22, 2017
Microbiology
Your gut is a long way from your brain, but problems with your gut microbiome could lead to problems with your brain by
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 15, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
An estimated 7.9 million babies are born every year with birth defects. In efforts to understand the causes of these def
...
AUG 09, 2017
Immunology
Too much inflammation in the gut triggers inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). There are immune cells specifically designed
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 09, 2017
Plants & Animals
Conservationists track a broad range of animals in the wild with GPS trackers, and penguins are no different. On the oth
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 07, 2017
Videos
On some level, we intuitively know that calories in is much easier than calories out. That is, we can easily consume 400
...
AUG 04, 2017
Microbiology
As more is learned about the microbes of the gastrointestinal tract, the more it's confirmed that they have a powerful i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 04, 2017
Immunology
An intricate relationship between the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and the part of the brain that senses smell contribute
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 04, 2017
Plants & Animals
Animals eat food because they’re in constant need of nutrition replenishment and energy to survive. On the other h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 03, 2017
Neuroscience
"It's all in your head!" Many people say this when they think of diet, exercise or kicking a bad habit. It
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim