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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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Chronic exposure to an environmental toxin known as BMAA may significantly increase the risk of developing Alzheimer&rsq ...JAN 23, 2016Health & Medicine
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School identified a new mechanism that mammals use ...Written By: Kerry EvansJAN 16, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
A new study by the National Institute of Health reported that a potato-rich diet pre-pregnancy may significantly increas ...
MAR 13, 2016
Videos
Every organism we know of requires water to survive, so it's hard to think of something as valuable as water as potentia
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAR 04, 2016
Immunology
All food allergies are not created equal. In fact, researchers from the University of Southampton set out to prove just
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 04, 2016
Health & Medicine
Without a system of protein interactions to govern when organisms like humans feel hungry and compelled to eat, there&rs
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 26, 2016
Videos
Pimples are nasty little things you can get on your skin as pores become clogged with dead skin cells and dirt. Unfortun
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 24, 2016
Neuroscience
There have been more than a few studies that tout the benefits of chocolate for health. A study released in June 2
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 20, 2016
Health & Medicine
Air pollution can have devastating effects on a person’s health. According to the World Health Organization, being
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
FEB 16, 2016
Plants & Animals
When you think about the largest predators at the top of the food chain, you probably imagine bears, sharks, lions, and
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 12, 2016
Videos
Of all the factors that influence cholesterol levels, stress is one that's consistently overlooked. Chronic stress, in p
...
FEB 12, 2016
Immunology
Vitamin D is an essential micronutrient that must be obtained from the environment; the body does not make it on its own
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 12, 2016
Videos
While there are new discoveries in genetics, precision medicine and immunotherapy for treating cancer, the experts that
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 11, 2016
Cardiology
Eat them in a smoothie or eat them plain, either way red raspberries are a gold mine of healthy compounds, dense with nu
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 10, 2016
Microbiology
PAMPs in processed food may be making you sick. Pathogen-associated molecular patterns, or PAMPs, are molecules associat
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
FEB 10, 2016
Neuroscience
Eat fish, it’s good for you, it’s brain food. Don’t eat fish, it has mercury in it, it’s bad for
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 04, 2016
Health & Medicine
Besides having on average larger feet than short people, a new study shows tall people are also more at risk for getting
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 03, 2016
Videos
If you're one of the 7 million Americans who follow a vegetarian diet, you may be wondering how to maximize your protein
...
JAN 30, 2016
Videos
In 2015, over 1.6 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the United States alone. As the leading cause of death w
...
JAN 30, 2016
Cardiology
Anticoagulant drugs thin the blood (I.E. “blood thinners”) to prevent dangerous clotting in the vessels. Peo
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 30, 2016
Cardiology
Cardiovascular disease affects millions of Americans every year, and its strongly linked to obesity. A new study from th
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 29, 2016
Videos
You probably already know that too much of anything can be a bad thing, especially if that thing is soda. But do you kno
...
JAN 25, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Chronic exposure to an environmental toxin known as BMAA may significantly increase the risk of developing Alzheimer&rsq
...
JAN 23, 2016
Health & Medicine
Fried foods are widely regarded to be terrible for your health. However, researchers recently found that frying raw vege
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JAN 19, 2016
Neuroscience
Having a stroke can leave a person with significant impairments in movement, cognitive ability and speech. It is the thi
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 17, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School identified a new mechanism that mammals use
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JAN 16, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
A new study by the National Institute of Health reported that a potato-rich diet pre-pregnancy may significantly increas
...