Nutrition refers to the process of eating, digesting, and using food, and the study of this process, especially to determining an optimal
diet for purposes of health
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body building, or other purposes.
There exists a large category of disease which are caused by malnutrition?, or the lack of proper nutrition. These include :
Additionally, several diseases directly or indirectly are impacted by diet, or require very close attention to diet. These include
- metabolic or nutritionally related disease such as diabeties? or hypothyroidism?.
- various eating disorders such as [binge eating]?, [anorexia nervosa]?, or bulimia?
Current dietary guidelines in the United States are presented in the concept of a [food pyramid]?. Detailed information on general nutrion is available at the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrion Information Center, at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/.
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Controversies in modern nutrition include:
- The current disparity in food availability between first and third world populations, see famine? and poverty?
- How large a place dairy products should take in the [food pyramid]?
- How much meat and animal products is appropriate in diet, see also vegetarian and vegan
- Should genetic engineering be used the production of food crops and animals
- Are the use of pesticide?s, and fertilizer?s damaging to the foods produced by use of these methods, see also [organic farming]?