Nutrition

Nutrition is the study of the relationship between diet and states of health and disease. Absent appropriate nutrition, functioning will be compromised and diseases can take hold, potentially resulting in death.

Related Topics:
Diet - Health - Disease

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Between the extremes of optimal health and death from starvation or malnutrition, there is an array of disease states that can be caused or alleviated by changes in diet. Both deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in the diet can have have negative impacts on health, resulting in disease states such as scurvy, obesity or osteoporosis. Also, excess ingestion of elements that have no apparent role in health (e.g. lead, mercury, PCBs, dioxins) may have toxic and potentially lethal effects depending on dose.

Related Topics:
Starvation - Malnutrition - Scurvy - Obesity - Osteoporosis - Lead - Mercury - PCBs - Dioxins - Toxic

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The science of nutrition attempts to understand how and why specific aspects of diet have specific influences on health.

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