Nutrition

An example is eating spinach with citrus to improve iron absorption…

Human nutrition deals with the provision of essential nutrients in food that are necessary to support human life and good health.

I’m hoping this is the right place for this but does anyone have core principles for marathon nutrition specifically for during the training phases (not race day?) I’m training for my first marathon and while running isn’t new to me, most of my exercise has been in the gym. Now, with running, I’m h

Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life.

There are many "good" and evidence-based nutrition wisedom out there. But people often fall into what is known as the Nirvana-fallacy, that is they fail while trying to get everything correct from the get go. Whilst we know, that for all things worth doing, it's worth doing them even to only 10% tha

In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.

It's so easy to screw it up early in the day when the excitement is high, ask me how I know.... Cramps, bonking, stomach feeling like a mess, abject feeling of impending doom from drowning. 10 out 10 already signed up for my next race, hopefully I learned enough to do it better.

Parenteral nutrition (PN) is the feeding of nutritional products to a person intravenously, bypassing the usual process of eating and digestion.

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Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter.