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Foodstuff and its features Enzymes and digestion foodstuff, consuming, future health and affliction Nutrient nutritional requisites and reference values weight problems within the twenty-first century fat, oils and lipids Milk and dairy items Carbohydrates Carbohydrate-rich meals Amino acids and proteins Protein-rich meals Water and drinks Mineral parts supplements and different bioactive foodstuff elements culmination, nuts and greens equipment of Read more...

summary: nutrition and its features Enzymes and digestion nutrition, consuming, health and wellbeing and disorder Nutrient nutritional requisites and reference values weight problems within the twenty-first century fat, oils and lipids Milk and dairy items Carbohydrates Carbohydrate-rich meals Amino acids and proteins Protein-rich meals Water and drinks Mineral parts supplementations and different bioactive nutrients parts culmination, nuts and greens tools of cooking nutrition and future health meals spoilage and renovation pollutants, food-borne infections and nutrients hygiene foodstuff contaminants - grownup

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Artichokes) can provoke unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms. 4 Food allergy and atopy. Food allergy is a form of food intolerance involving the body’s immune system. Normally, the immune system protects the body against substances such as harmful viruses and bacteria but in food allergy it also reacts to certain harmless substances contained in food. g. glycoprotein, see p. 140) that is recognized by antibodies. Studies among children, in particular, have shown that anxiety about food allergy is much more common than true allergy.

Roughage is the indigestible part of food; chemically, it consists mainly of cellulose while physically it consists of the cell walls of plants. Refined foods are those that have been processed so as to remove part or all of the cell walls of the natural foods from which they are derived. Sugar, for example, is a completely refined food. It contains no trace of the cell walls of the sugar-cane or sugar-beet from which it is derived; it is ‘pure’ sucrose. White flour is a refined food in the sense that a considerable proportion of the cell walls of the wheat from which it is made has been removed.

Qxd 28 14-02-2006 11:37 Page 28 Food, eating, health and disease REGULATION OF APPETITE AND EATING Conventionally, animals either graze continuously for most of the day, or eat in episodic bouts or meals. Herbivores need such an enormous bulk of green leaves to obtain their energy needs, that grazing is necessary, even with an extra specially adapted stomach (the rumen) which can digest cellulose. When the food supply contains larger amounts of starch, protein or fat, where energy is more concentrated, intermittent meals become possible.

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