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  Food groups

  The food groups are part of a method of classification for the various foods that humans consume in their everyday lives, based on the nutritional properties of these types of foods and their ... > more
• Cholesterol
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  Unsaturated fat

  An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is one or more double bond in the fatty acid chain. A fat molecule is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond, and polyunsaturated if ... > more
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  Oily fish

  Oily fish (oil-rich fish, pelagic fish) are those fish which have oils throughout the fillet and in the belly cavity around the gut, rather than only in the liver like white fish. Oily fish generally ... > more
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  Whole grain

  Whole grains are cereal grains which retain the bran and germ as well as the endosperm, in contrast to refined grains which retain only the endosperm. Whole meal products are made from whole grain ... > more
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
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  Nutrition and pregnancy

  Nutrition and pregnancy refers to the nutrient intake, and dietary planning that is undertook before, during and after pregnancy. Not only have physical disorders been linked with ill-nutrition ... > more
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  Vitamin

  A vitamin is an organic molecule required by a living organism in minute amounts for proper health. In general, an organism must obtain vitamins or their metabolic precursors from outside the body, ... > more
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  Vitamin K

  Vitamin K denotes a group of 2-methilo-naphthoquinone derivatives. They are human vitamins, lipophilic (i.e., soluble in lipids) and therefore hydrophobic (i.e., insoluble in water). They are needed ... > more
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  Lipid

  Lipids are a class of hydrocarbon-containing organic compounds. Lipids are categorized by the fact that they are soluble in nonpolar solvents (such as ether and chloroform) and are relatively ... > more
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  Heavy metals

  A heavy metal is any of a number of higher atomic weight elements, which has the properties of a metallic substance at room temperature. Living organisms require trace amounts of some heavy metals, ... > more
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  Fatty acid

  A fatty acid is a carboxylic acid (or organic acid), often with a long aliphatic tail (long chains), either saturated or unsaturated. Depending on the context, fatty acids may be assumed to have at ... > more

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