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Balanced eating: why you don’t have to choose between plant vs animal foods
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Popular Terms
Commonly searched nutrition and food terms
Appetite regulation
The body's complex system of hormones, brain signals and gut responses that controls when you feel hungry, how much you eat and when you feel satisfied
Bioaccessibility
The proportion of a nutrient or beneficial compound in food that is actually released during digestion of the food and made available for the body to absorb in the gut.
Chrononutrition
The science of aligning meal timing with the body's internal clock to optimize metabolism, digestion and health, based on how organs process nutrients differently throughout the day.
Confused eater
A consumer overwhelmed by conflicting nutrition information, diet trends and food marketing, leading to their uncertainty about what constitutes healthy eating
Food apartheid
Food apartheid describes the systemic inequities in food accessibility caused by structural racism and intentional policies, not geographic location or natural occurrence.
Food desert
Geographic areas where residents lack adequate access to affordable, nutritious foods.
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