📚 Nutrition
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Human nutrition studies how dietary components supply energy and substrates to sustain life, growth, and repair.
Key dimensions:
It integrates biochemistry, physiology, and behavior, examining how foods become absorbable molecules, how these enter cells, and how imbalances drive disease. At an advanced level, nutrition is about systems regulation, not food fads.
A nutrient is essential if:
1. The body cannot synthesize it (or enough of it)
2. Deficiency causes specific symptoms
3. Reintroduction reverses these symptoms
Examples:
Key idea: Essentiality depends on biosynthetic capacity and physiological demand, not perceived importance.
Micronutrients rarely yield energy directly but act as cofactors, antioxidants, and signaling molecules. Deficiency often appears subtly (fatigue, impaired immunity) before severe disease emerges.
Nutrient recommendations include:
These values vary by age, sex, and physiology (pregnancy, lactation). They refer to chronic intake, not daily fluctuations.
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