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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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AUG 28, 2015Genetics & Genomics
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The Ohio State's Food Innovation Canter (FIC), Center for Advanced Functional Foods Research and Entrepreneurship (CAFFR ...Written By: Sarah HertrichJUN 28, 2015Plants & Animals
Pythons asphyxiate their prey before devouring it, a method of basically choking the animal to death before serving it f ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 25, 2015Health & Medicine
On Tuesday, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that within three years all food manufacturers wi ...Written By: Sarah HertrichJUN 24, 2015Neuroscience
Everyone knows that overdosing on fat and sugar can add extra pounds and cause a variety of physical health problems. Re ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 15, 2015Cancer
The best way to keep an aggressive disease at bay may be on your spice rack, not in your medicine cabinet. You probably ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 10, 2015Plants & Animals
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Visualize broccoli. It might not be a bumper sticker yet, but focusing the mind's eye on healthy eating could be a key t ...Written By: Will HectorMAY 26, 2015Neuroscience
There's good fat, and then there's really good fat.
Two separate studies have pointed to the key role played ...Written By: Will HectorMAY 24, 2015Health & Medicine
Obesity has long been a global epidemic with an estimated 2.8 million people dying each year from associated complicatio ...Written By: Jennifer EllisMAY 20, 2015Plants & Animals
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AUG 28, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Microbial consortia are described as assemblages of different species of microbes in physical as well as biochemical con
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 20, 2015
Infographics
Cancer is a word that can cause devastation simply by being spoken aloud during a doctor’s appointment. So many pe
...
AUG 10, 2015
Health & Medicine
PepsiCo is one of the largest cola manufacturers in the world, right beside Coca-Cola, so it's a pretty big deal when th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 27, 2015
Health & Medicine
Arsenic is a chemical element known to be carcinogenic, and it contaminates many foods that contain rice (Environmental
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 19, 2015
Cancer
Chemicals found in some beloved foods and beverages may help the body to utilize chemotherapy drugs. Valuable in a nutri
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 15, 2015
Neuroscience
For the more than 15 million Americans who work unusual shifts - evening, graveyard or alternating - the news is unsettl
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 15, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
The role of telomeres in the aging process has become a hot topic in biology, and recent study have linked telomeres - t
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 15, 2015
Health & Medicine
Kale, the current leafy green of choice for many health-savvy people in the United States, could potentially be under sc
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 10, 2015
Videos
Plankton are known to have a broad palate, including pretty much anything smaller than themselves. So, it may come as no
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
JUL 07, 2015
Plants & Animals
Did you know that your precious pet could be harboring a bacteria that could potentially be harmful to you and your fami
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUL 01, 2015
Health & Medicine
A recent study conducted by scientists at Tufts University has linked the consumption of sugary beverages to 184,000 adu
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUN 29, 2015
Cancer
The Ohio State's Food Innovation Canter (FIC), Center for Advanced Functional Foods Research and Entrepreneurship (CAFFR
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUN 28, 2015
Plants & Animals
Pythons asphyxiate their prey before devouring it, a method of basically choking the animal to death before serving it f
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 25, 2015
Health & Medicine
On Tuesday, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that within three years all food manufacturers wi
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
JUN 24, 2015
Neuroscience
Everyone knows that overdosing on fat and sugar can add extra pounds and cause a variety of physical health problems. Re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 15, 2015
Cancer
The best way to keep an aggressive disease at bay may be on your spice rack, not in your medicine cabinet. You probably
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 10, 2015
Plants & Animals
A recent birth at the Queens Zoo in New York City belongs to the mother of the smallest species of deer in the world; a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Visualize broccoli. It might not be a bumper sticker yet, but focusing the mind's eye on healthy eating could be a key t
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 26, 2015
Neuroscience
There's good fat, and then there's really good fat.
Two separate studies have pointed to the key role played ...
Two separate studies have pointed to the key role played ...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 24, 2015
Health & Medicine
Obesity has long been a global epidemic with an estimated 2.8 million people dying each year from associated complicatio
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
MAY 20, 2015
Plants & Animals
We've all seen the adorable panda pictures of these cuddly black and white bears lazing around chewing on bamboo. Just l
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 12, 2015
Neuroscience
A new study conducted by Dr. Jonas F. Ludvigsson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and published in JAMA
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 30, 2015
Health & Medicine
This article by Kathleen Gillespie originally appeared on The Conversation.Young British men have a problem with diabete
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 30, 2015
Plants & Animals
Researchers from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign studied saddleback Tamarin monkeys in the South American ra
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim