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Nutrition

By Shereen Jegtvig, About.com

Updated: November 5, 2007

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Definition:
The science of foods and the nutrients they contain. Nutrition includes the study of the actions of the nutrients within the body, including ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, metabolism and excretion.

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