{"id":832,"date":"2010-07-09T03:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2010-07-09T03:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T11:30:31","slug":"what-is-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"What Is Nutrition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nutrition<\/strong>, nourishment, or aliment, is the supply of materials &#8211;  food &#8211; required by organisms and cells to stay alive. In science and  human medicine, nutrition is the science or practice of consuming and  utilizing foods.<\/p>\n<p>In hospitals, nutrition may refer to the food requirements of patients,  including nutritional solutions delivered via an IV (intravenous) or IG  (intragastric) tube.<\/p>\n<p>Nutritional science studies how the body breaks food down (catabolism)  and repairs and creates cells and tissue (anabolism) &#8211; catabolism and  anabolism = metabolism. Nutritional science also examines how the body  responds to food.  In other words, <em>&#8220;nutritional science investigates  the metabolic and physiological responses of the body to diet&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics advance, nutrition has  become more focused on the steps of biochemical sequences through which  substances inside us and other living organisms are transformed from one  form to another &#8211; metabolism and metabolic pathways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition, nourishment, or aliment, is the supply of materials &#8211; food &#8211; required by organisms and cells to stay alive. In science and human medicine, nutrition is the science or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=832\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[8270,8271,8272],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-you-know","tag-nutrition","tag-what-is-nutrition-why-is-nutrition-important","tag-why-is-nutrition-important","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}