The study of how food and its components sustain, and can undermine, human health, carried here for its bearing on population and personal wellbeing. The atlas seam with FoodAtlas holds where cuisine and culinary tradition belong to food, and the science of what a nutrient does in the body belongs here.
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Central QuestionWhat does the body need from food, in what amount, and what follows when a need goes unmet or is exceeded. 1 Key DebateDietary guidance has revised itself repeatedly over the twentieth and twenty first centuries, most visibly on dietary fat, cholesterol and the macronutrient balance a general population should aim for, and the field records those revisions honestly rather than treating the current guidance as final. 2 Connections
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Joseph Goldberger demonstrated in the 1910s-1920s that pellagra was caused by dietary deficiency rather than infection.
Source Wikipedia: National School Lunch ProgramWikipedia contributors
Source Wikipedia: WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)Wikipedia contributors
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Source United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Source United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Source World Health Organization Official Site
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Source United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
Source United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
Source World Health Organization Official Site
Source United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
Source World Health Organization Official Site
Sources
1. United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
2. Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.Human nutrition
Human nutrition is the process by which substances in food are transformed into body tissues and provide energy for the full range of physical and mental activities that make up human life.
- Includes: Body Mass Index
- Includes: James Lind
- Includes: Casimir Funk
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WikipediaLead sectionQuote, Lead section
Nutritional science, the study of nutrition as a hard science, typically emphasizes human nutrition.
World Health Organization Official Site
World Health Organization- Includes: Food Fortification
- Includes: Salt Iodization, eLENA: Salt iodization, intervention framing
- Includes: Vitamin A Supplementation, eLENA: Vitamin A supplementation, intervention framing
View the Source Wikipedia: WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
Wikipedia: National School Lunch Program
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: National School Lunch Program
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