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Nutritional science (also nutrition science, sometimes short nutrition, dated trophology [1]) is the science that studies the physiological process of nutrition (primarily human nutrition), interpreting the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.
19 lis 2015 · From a scientific-philosophical perspective, this paper will outline the current state of nutritional science in the field of biology, reveal its conceptional difficulties, and present a basic concept of nutritional biology.
Nutritional science examines how organisms consume and process foods and beverages for nourishment. Nutrients, including carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water, are the essence of nutrition.
18 paź 2024 · Nutrition, the assimilation by living organisms of food materials that enable them to grow, maintain themselves, and reproduce. Food provides materials from which all the structural and catalytic components of the living cell can be assembled.
Modern nutritional science should be substantively grounded on ecological-and therefore systems biology as well as organismic-principles. The aim of nutritional biology, then, should be to develop near-universal 'law statements' in nutritional science-a task which presents a major challenge for the current science system.
1 wrz 2005 · A brief overview shows that current conventional nutrition is defined as a biological science, although its governing and guiding principles are implicit only, and no generally agreed...
‘Nutrition is the branch of science that studies the process by which living organisms take in and use food for the maintenance of life, growth, reproduction, the functioning of organs and tissues, and the production of energy.’ 1
