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nutrition

3 definitions • 3 examples
1
the substances that you take into your body as food and the way that they influence your health:

Examples:

Good nutrition is essential if patients are to make a quick recovery.
improvements in nutrition
2
the process of taking in and using food, or the scientific study of this:

Examples:

She's a professor of nutrition at Columbia University.
3
the process by which the body takes in and uses food, esp. food that it needs to stay healthy, or the scientific study of this process

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