Talk:Nutrition/to do

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• Make sure water and all the caloric sources are mentioned, with the usual warnings about alcohol and the alkaloids.
• Show the easiest ways to obtain all the essential nutrients and amino acids without eating meat (this is not to be biased against meat, just frugal and comprehensive, as meat is easy for complete nutrition (if the high fat and cholesterol which often comes with it is considered nutritious) and generally more expensive before processing and packaging, and always much more expensive by land use)
• Mention that potassium supplements are often only 3% of the U.S. RDA per tablet.
  • potassium supplements can result in heart problems including heart failure.^{[citation needed]} Why encourage potassium supplements? Better to mention avocados, bananas, fruit as rich sources.
• Mention that most people these days are deficient in calcium and often potassium, and most women are deficient in magnesium.
• Try to show nutrients with significant drug-interaction profile (e.g., vitamin K.)
• Get the history of recognition of the essential minerals
  • Magnesium
  • Potassium
• List the most common deficiencies and their side effects (since this varies by age, graphs would be best for comparing RDAs to mean and median intake levels in men/women, by age, with graphs for different locales if there's time. See malnutrition; this article should be summarized here.
• Figure out if the phytochemicals and nutrient terpenes are "essential," "vital," or "helpful."
  • Same thing for the Omega-3,6,9 fatty acids.
• Note connection between diet and exercise
• Shorten article to around 30K by moving details to sub-articles.