Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.
Beta-carotene is a precursor to vitamin A, which means that your body is able to use it to synthesize retinol if your liver has storage space for it. If your body contains enough vitamin A as retinol, beta-carotene is not converted.
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Platelet cells are one of the three main types of cells in your blood, along with red and white blood cells. Platelets are very small cells that are used by your body during the clotting process, which is triggered by an injury to a blood vessel.
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Honeycomb is a waxy, hexagonal structure built by worker honeybees to store honey and pollen, as well as to house developing larvae. The honeybees produce the wax by eating their own honey.
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Palmitic acid is a saturated fatty acid commonly found in both animals and plants. It is a major component in the oils from palm trees, such as palm oil, palm kernel oil and coconut oil.
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Natural spring and mineral water contains numerous minerals that your body needs in small amounts for a wide variety of functions, including nerve conductance, muscle tone and bone growth and repair. Commercially bottled varieties sometimes add minerals for taste and health purposes.
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Herpes is a viral infection that causes inflammation and pain, usually within the skin and nerves near the lips or genitals. Herpes is extremely difficult if not impossible to get rid of from your body because the viruses live and proliferate within nerve ganglions.
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Taking vitamins with certain beverages can reduce absorption efficiency. Tannins and caffeine in many tea varieties interfere with your body’s ability to absorb some vitamins and minerals, especially iron. Herbal teas, on the other hand, actually enhance absorption.
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Calcium bicarbonate is not a naturally occurring solid, but it does form in water when calcium, carbonate and bicarbonate ions are dissolved with carbon dioxide.
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Bloating has become a common side effect of eating and typically results when bacteria feed off of undigested food or difficult-to-digest compounds, then produce hydrogen gas as a waste product.
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Your gallbladder is a small organ near your liver that stores, concentrates and releases bile into your small intestine. Bile is used to digest fat into fatty acids, which your body can utilize.
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Sugarcane is a tall, thick perennial grass similar in appearance to bamboo. It is native to tropical regions of Asia, although now widely grown in Brazil and the Caribbean. Sugarcane is rich in sugars and used to make table sugar, molasses, rum and ethanol.
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Vitamin C is a water-soluble nutrient not produced by your body. You must consume it fairly regularly, at least in small doses, to avoid any symptoms of deficiency. Eating foods rich in vitamin C or supplementing with it is not known to affect the results of a home pregnancy test, which tests for a specific hormone.
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Intrinsic factor, or IF, is an enzyme-like compound produced by parietal cells in your stomach. It is required to absorb dietary vitamin B-12 within your intestines. As people age, many lose function of their parietal cells, which reduces the production of IF and hydrochloric acid.
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