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  Healthy diet

  A healthy diet contains a balance of food groups and all the nutrients necessary to promote good health. Human nutrition is enormously complex and a healthy diet may vary widely according to an ... > more
• Diabetes
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  Diabetic diet

  The diet frequently recommended for people who suffer from diabetes mellitus is one that is high in dietary fibre, especially soluble fibre, but low in fat (especially saturated fat) and sugar. ... > more
• Food
  Vegetarian
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  Vegetable

  Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. All parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part, are generally ... > more
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  Malnutrition

  Malnutrition is a general term for the medical condition caused by an improper or insufficient diet. It most often refers to undernutrition resulting from inadequate consumption, poor absorption, or ... > more
• Dietary Supplements and Minerals
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  Micronutrient

  Micronutrients are essential elements needed by life in small quantities. They include microminerals and Vitamins. Microminerals or trace elements include at least iron, cobalt, chromium, copper, ... > more
• Vitamin
  Vitamin B
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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
• Food
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  Gluten

  Gluten is an amorphous ergastic protein found combined with starch in the endosperm of some cereals, notably wheat, rye, and barley. It constitutes about 80% of the proteins contained in wheat, and ... > more
• Breastfeeding
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  Pregnancy and Childbirth
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  Bacteria
   

  Colostrum

  Colostrum (also known as beestings or first milk) is a form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrums are thick, ... > more
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  Low-carbohydrate diet

  Low-carbohydrate diets or low carb diets are nutritional programs that advocate restricted carbohydrate consumption, based on research that ties carbohydrate consumption with increased blood insulin ... > more
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  Meat

  Meat is animal tissue used as food. It not only refers to muscle tissue, but also includes fat or non-muscle organs such as lungs, liver, and kidney. All muscle tissue is very high in protein ... > more

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