ScienceDaily: Essential nutrient

(March 17, 2005) -- Milk prices dairy farmers received in 2004 were higher than in recent years but dairying, like all forms of agriculture is a vicious treadmill, demanding ever more increased efficiency to stay in ..

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(March 14, 2005) -- A new study explains how a diet high in oily fish like salmon and mackerel improves inflammatory conditions, particularly in combination with low doses of aspirin.

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(July 10, 2002) -- UC Riverside Earth Scientist Martin Kennedy and colleagues report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that acid rain, by leaching essential metal nutrients (such as potassium, ...

(September 29, 2006) -- Scientists are reporting an advance toward understanding and possibly combating a natural process that destroys billions of dollars worth of subsurface petroleum. Called biodegradation, it occurs as ..

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(January 24, 2002) -- Writing in the medical journal, The Lancet , scientists from Cornell University and Seoul National University offer a more precise explanation for vitamin C's anti-cancer activity. And they suggest .

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(March 9, 2007) -- Leafy greens and beans aren't the only foods that pack a punch of folate, the vitamin essential for a healthy start to ...

(March 10, 1999) -- Have you noticed your memory isn't what it used to be? Perhaps you can blame it on your mother's diet. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report for the first time in this .

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(March 8, 2007) -- Although urine makes up only 1 percent of the total volume of wastewater, it accounts for 50-80 percent of the nutrient content. Nutrients have to be removed by resource-intensive processes at ..

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(January 12, 2005) -- Turnip aphids beware!

Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service and at Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey, have found that oils from many Turkish medicinal herbs are deadlier to the aphid ...

(November 10, 2004) -- Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have identified a protein that transports the essential nutrient boron into cells, where it is important for cell growth and bone ..

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(January 12, 2007) -- Tropical forests are among the most diverse plant communities on earth, and scientists have labored for decades to identify the ecological and evolutionary processes that created and maintain them.

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-- An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal body functioning that can not be synthesized by the body. Categories of essential nutrient include vitamins, dietary minerals, essential fatty ..

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-- Micronutrients are essential elements needed by life in small quantities. They include microminerals and Vitamins.

Microminerals or trace elements include at least iron, cobalt, chromium, copper, ...

-- A vitamin is an organic molecule required by a living organism in minute amounts for proper health. In general, an organism must obtain vitamins or their metabolic precursors from outside the body, ..

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-- The food groups are part of a method of classification for the various foods that humans consume in their everyday lives, based on the nutritional properties of these types of foods and their ..

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-- Humus is a complex organic substance resulting from the breakdown of plant material in a process called humification. This process can occur naturally in soil, or in the production of compost.

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-- Malnutrition is a general term for the medical condition caused by an improper or insufficient diet. It most often refers to undernutrition resulting from inadequate consumption, poor absorption, or ..

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-- Whole grains are cereal grains which retain the bran and germ as well as the endosperm, in contrast to refined grains which retain only the endosperm. Whole meal products are made from whole grain .

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-- A fatty acid is a carboxylic acid (or organic acid), often with a long aliphatic tail (long chains), either saturated or unsaturated.

Depending on the context, fatty acids may be assumed to have at ...

-- A healthy diet contains a balance of food groups and all the nutrients necessary to promote good health. Human nutrition is enormously complex and a healthy diet may vary widely according to an ..

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Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects nearly one in every hundred people.

Unfortunately, 97 percent remain undiagnosed and untreated. They continue to suffer from gastrointestinal ..

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