Concepts belonging to what nutrients do in the body and how dietary intake and expenditure balance is measured, distinct from applied dietary guidance or food safety practice. Belongs here: body mass index, caloric balance, macronutrient, micronutrient. Does not belong here: a delivered nutrition guidance program, which is a practice rather than a concept, or a fitness-specific measure, grouped under exercise science.
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Modern nutrition science began in the 1910s as individual micronutrients began to be identified.
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