Health Care – Nutrition

What did your eldest ancestors subsist on? See also: ”Food – Preparation & Cooking”.

• bodyworks 101 [ sunlight ; hydration ; digestion & metabolism ]
• Satter's hierarchy of food needs [enough food → acceptable food → reliable , ongoing access to food → good-tasting food → novel food → instrumental food ]
• basic nutrition [ fat - & water-soluble vitamins ; essential amino acids ; essential fattyacids; minerals ; appropriate carbohydrates ; enzymes ; glycemic index; satiety index]
• traditional nutrition [ Weston A. Price Foundation ; paleo diet ; bitters help digestion]
• advanced nutrition [ superfoods ; probiotics ; rainbow diet : chlorophylls ; carotenoids ; anthocyanins ; betalains ]
• malnutrition ailments [ scurvy ; anemia ; pellagra ; night blindness & xerophthalmia ; goiter & cretinism ; beriberi ; rickets ; vitamin K deficiency ; tetany; osteoporosis ; keshandisease; zinc deficiency ]
• agricultural food health implications
• industrial food health implications