List of basic nutrition topics

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For a more comprehensive list, see the List of nutrition topics.

Basic topics in nutrition include:

Contents 1 Nature of nutrition 2 Branches of nutrition 3 History of nutrition 4 Basic nutrition concepts 5 Nutrition scholars 6 Nutrition lists 7 See also

[edit] Nature of nutrition

Main article: Nutrition

[edit] Branches of nutrition

[edit] History of nutrition

Main article: History of nutrition

[edit] Basic nutrition concepts

Main article: Nutrition

• Amino acid
• Calorie
  • Calorie counting
  • Calorie restriction
• Carbohydrate
  • Simple carbohydrate
  • Complex carbohydrate
• Cognitive enhancer
• Diet
  • Dietary supplement
  • Dieting
  • Healthy diet
• Essential
  • Essential amino acid
  • Essential fatty acid
  • Essential mineral
  • Non-essential
  • Vitamin
• Healthy eating
• Healthy weight
• General Fitness Training
• Glycemic index
• Growth hormone releaser
• Life extension
• Megadosing
• Megavitamin therapy
• Nootropic
• Nutraceutical
• Nutrient
• Obesity
• Orthomolecular medicine
• Phytochemical
• Protein
• Relationship between exercise and nutrition
• Sports nutrition
• Supplement
• Veganism
• Vegetarianism
• Vitamin

Note: nutrition and exercise work synergistically to promote optimal health. A personal health regimen with one and not the other is woefully inadequate.

[edit] Nutrition scholars

• Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw
• Linus Pauling

[edit] Nutrition lists

Main article: List of nutrition topics

• List of nutrients
  • List of dietary amino acids
    • List of essential amino acids
  • List of dietary minerals
    • List of essential minerals
  • List of dietary fatty acids
    • List of essential fatty acids
  • List of dietary herbs
  • List of nootropics
  • List of vitamins
• List of dietary supplements
• List of herbal supplements

[edit] See also

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