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Vitamin

... 7 External links History The value of eating certain foods to maintain health was recognized lo...vy . In 1905 , William Fletcher discovered that eating unpolished rice instead of polished helped prevent the disease beriberi . The following year, F...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

... disorders , obsessive-compulsive disorder , and eating disorders . Though not specifically indicated by the manufacturers, they are also sometimes prescribed to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome . SSRIs are not addictive in the strict sense of the word (i.e. animals given free access to the drug do not ...

Protein

...ete proteins can be made in an all vegan diet by eating a sufficient variety of foods and by getting enoug...acids in the same meal (the most common example is eating beans with rice) but nutritionists now know that the benefits of protein combining can be achieved o...

Photosynthesis

...food directly from inorganic compounds, instead of eating other organisms or relying on material derived from them. Most notably, they use carbon dioxide gas and water to produce sugars and oxygen gas. The energy for these processes comes from photosynthesis. For instance, the over-all equation for t...

Nutrition

...has been shown that our needs are best met through eating a wide variety of fresh, unprocessed and unmanufac...e aging etc., poor psychological health, including eating disorders. Imbalances in omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids is thought to be related to autism and...

Insulin

.../dl (3.9 to 6.1 mmol /litre) except shortly after eating when the blood glucose level rises temporarily. In a healthy adult male of 75 kg with a blood volume of 5 litre , a blood glucose level of 100 mg/dl or 5.5 mmol/l corresponds to about 5 g (1/5 ounce) of glucose in the blood and approximately 45 ...

Photosynthesis

...food directly from inorganic compounds, instead of eating other organisms or relying on material derived from them. Most notably, they use carbon dioxide gas and water to produce sugars and oxygen gas. The energy for these processes comes from photosynthesis. For instance, the over-all equation for t...

Herbivore

...ainly fruit ; or folivores , which specialize in eating leaves . This specialization is far from universal, however, and many fruit- and leaf-eating animals also eat other parts of plants, notably roots and seeds . The diets of some herbivorous animals vary with the seasons, especially in the temperate...

Escherichia coli

...d can cause food-poisoning usually associated with eating contaminated meat (contaminated during or shortly after slaughter or during storage or display). Severity of the illness varies considerably; it can, rarely, be fatal, but is more often mild. A "strain" of E. coli is a family with some particu...

Diabetes mellitus

...also have a hypo under certain conditions i.e. not eating regularly, or strenuous exercise, followed by fatigue. Levels greater than 13-15 mmol/L (230-270 mg/dL) should be monitored closely and the patient is advised to seek urgent medical attention as soon as possible if this continues to rise after 2-3 t...