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nutrient
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Defining the Western Diet & Its Impact - Frontier Neuro frontierneuro.com Feb 1, 2022 5 facts
quote“The processing of foods typically robs them of nutrients, vitamins especially. Store food is food designed to be stored and transported over long distances, and the surest way to make food more stable and less vulnerable to pests is to remove the nutrients from it. In general, calories are much easier to transport than nutrients.”
claimModern diets lacking in food diversity result in a lack of diversity in nutrients and the human microbiome.
claimThe process of refining food strips nutrients from the food, resulting in a less nutritious product compared to whole foods.
claimThe modern Western diet is characterized by a lower density of nutrients, which leads individuals to consume more calories to obtain the same amount of nutrients, resulting in obesity and hunger.
quote“When we eat processed, sugar-laden foods, we’re hungry all the time because our body is starved for the nutrients it requires.”
A Consensus Proposal for Nutritional Indicators to Assess ... - Frontiers frontiersin.org 4 facts
claimThe nutrient density of a composite diet is defined as the amount of necessary nutrients and fibers present in a given daily diet, expressed in weight or energy.
claimLarger portion sizes in terms of energy, nutrient, and diversity in times of food abundance lead to unhealthy diets, diabesity, and diet-associated morbidity and mortality.
formulaThe Mean Adequacy Ratio (MAR) for assessing a daily diet is based on the mean percentage of recommended intakes for 29 key nutrients, potentially combined with the Mean Excess Ratio (MER) for nutrients that should be limited.
claimDietary diversity may guarantee a healthy diet by ensuring an adequate presence of nutrients and bioactive molecules.
Dietary diversity indicators: cultural preferences and health outcomes ouci.dntb.gov.ua 4 facts
referenceTorres-Collado et al. analyzed the association between dietary diversity and all-cause mortality in a Mediterranean population with 18 years of follow-up, published in Nutrients in 2022.
referenceOtsuka et al. studied the relationship between dietary diversity and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Japanese community-dwelling older adults, published in Nutrients in 2020.
referenceCámara et al. conducted a comparative analysis of food-based dietary guidelines around the world to update the AESAN Scientific Committee Dietary Recommendations, published in Nutrients in 2021.
referenceThe special issue in Nutrients (2025, № 7, p. 1210) explores current evidence and major barriers to optimising dietary therapy for women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), identifies future research priorities to advance clinical practice, improves maternal and foetal outcomes, and addresses gaps in personalised nutrition interventions.
Ethnobotanical and Food Composition Monographs of Selected ... ouci.dntb.gov.ua 3 facts
referenceGarcía-Herrera P et al. published a study in 2014 in Food Research International regarding the nutrients, phytochemicals, and antioxidant activity in wild populations of Allium ampeloprasum, identifying it as a valuable underutilized vegetable.
referenceBarros, Carvalho, Morais, and Ferreira (2010b) published a detailed characterization of nutrients and phytochemicals with antioxidant properties found in strawberry-tree, blackthorn, and rose fruits in the journal Food Chemistry.
referenceBockolt R and Schnittke C published 'Contents of nutrients and minerals in herb species of intensive managed peat soil meadows' in Wirtsch Futter in 1996.
Compendium Vol. 5 No. 1: The ecological role of native plants bio4climate.org 3 facts
claimCompetition for sunlight, water, and nutrients drives niche differentiation, which allows species to occupy specific spaces or timing within an ecosystem to access limited resources.
claimCommunity members share incoming solar radiation, soil water, and nutrients to produce a constant biomass, recycle nutrients from the soil to living tissue and back again, and alternate with each other in time and space.
referencePlant community members maintain an intricate balance by sharing solar radiation, soil water, and nutrients to produce constant biomass, recycling nutrients between soil and living tissue, and alternating with each other in time and space.
History of modern nutrition science—implications for current ... bmj.com Jun 13, 2018 2 facts
claimThe 1980 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and similar international guidelines were criticized for relying on less robust evidence, such as crude cross-country ecological comparisons and short-term experiments using surrogate outcomes in healthy middle-aged men, while focusing on isolated single nutrients.
claimCohort studies in nutrition science provided the first individual-level, multivariable-adjusted findings on nutrients, foods, diet patterns, and health outcomes.
Nutrient sensing, signaling and transport in plants - Frontiers frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimIn plants, nutrients absorbed from the soil are transported from heterotrophic roots to seeds via autotrophic shoots or leaves using specific transporter proteins, including channels, carriers, and pumps.
claimIn higher plants, nutrients absorbed from the soil are transported from heterotrophic roots to seeds via autotrophic shoots or leaves using specific transporter proteins, including channels, carriers, and pumps.
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How do the indices based on the EAT-Lancet recommendations ... medrxiv.org May 14, 2024 2 facts
referenceThe PANDiet quality index is a comprehensive measure used to evaluate nutritional adequacy by assessing the probability of meeting recommended intake levels for 33 nutrients.
procedureThe PANDiet quality index consists of two sub-scores: an 'adequacy' sub-score (averaging probabilities for 27 nutrients) and a 'moderation' sub-score (averaging probabilities for 6 nutrients to be kept within upper limits).
Dietary Diversity Indicators: Cultural Preferences and Health ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimDietary diversity is recognized as an essential component of a quality diet because no single food can provide all the nutrients required to maintain good health.
The Western Diet: Processed Foods and Meats Are Killing Us sentientmedia.org Jan 10, 2019 1 fact
claimThe lack of essential nutrients in the Western Diet prevents consumers from feeling full, which leads to a cycle of continuous overeating and health deterioration.
Nutraceutical Compounds of edible wild plants collected in Central ... wildlife-biodiversity.com Sep 26, 2024 1 fact
claimThe authors suggest that the consumption of the studied edible wild plants could provide significant health benefits due to their content of nutrients and biologically active components.
A Scoping Review of Indicators for Sustainable Healthy Diets frontiersin.org Jan 12, 2022 1 fact
measurementThe scoping review identified 24 indicators related to the costs of diets, with the majority focusing on the total cost of diets, meals, recipes, or nutrients.
Investigation of nutritional and phytochemical properties of wild ... nature.com Dec 9, 2025 1 fact
claimScientific profiling of essential minerals, nutrients, and bioactive compounds in medicinal plants supports the safe use of these plants and aids in the development of standardized herbal formulations.
Pharmacological Uses of New Bioactive Compounds from Medicinal ... academia.edu 1 fact
referenceProtic et al. (2021) reviewed evidence from randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials regarding the use of nutraceutical combinations for hypercholesterolemia, published in Nutrients.
Nutritional potential of underutilized edible plant species in coffee ... link.springer.com Apr 23, 2021 1 fact
claimDisocorea prehensilis, a wild yam growing in the understory of coffee forests, is rich in key nutrients, though it has not been widely acknowledged as a food source.
Ecology: Nature's Interactions and Ecosystem Dynamics scholarsresearchlibrary.com 1 fact
referenceEcosystem ecology involves studying the flow of energy and nutrients through both living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems, including the roles of producers (such as plants), consumers (such as herbivores and carnivores), and decomposers (such as fungi and bacteria) in maintaining ecosystem balance.
Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Goba District Southwest ... nature.com Jul 29, 2025 1 fact
claimWild edible plants are vital resources for increasing dietary diversity and providing essential nutrients in local diets.
Defining diet quality: a synthesis of dietary quality metrics and their ... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1 fact
claimThe authors of the study 'Defining diet quality: a synthesis of dietary quality metrics and their...' define a dietary metric as a metric derived from nutrients, food, or food groups, or a combination thereof, with the objective of measuring dietary diversity.
Nutritional Evolution – Human Origin and Evolution ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in 1 fact
claimHuman beings require five major types of nutrients to maintain health and promote growth: carbohydrates, lipids (fats and oils), proteins, minerals (including trace elements), and vitamins.
Medicinal plants and human health: a comprehensive review of ... link.springer.com Nov 5, 2025 1 fact
referenceGoyal and Chauhan (2024) published a review in Future Integrative Medicine titled 'Holistic approach of nutrients and traditional natural medicines for human health'.
The Evolution of Diet - National Geographic nationalgeographic.com 1 fact
claimPounding and heating food acts as a form of predigestion, allowing human guts to expend less energy on digestion and absorb more nutrients, thereby providing more fuel for the brain.
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimFood selection is a quest for substances, including both nutrients and drugs, that provide homeostatic utility for an organism, according to Villalba and Provenza (2007).