nutritionnoun [ U ]
uk/njuːˈtrɪʃ.ən/us/nuːˈtrɪʃ.ən/C1 the substances that you take into your body as food and the way that they influence your health:
Good nutrition is essential if patients are to make a quick recovery.
improvements in nutrition
the process of taking in and using food, or the scientific study of this:
She's a professor of nutrition at Columbia University.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Diets & dieting
- anorexia nervosa
- balanced diet
- bulimia
- caloric
- calorie-controlled
- calorific
- comfort eating
- complex carbohydrate
- crash diet
- deficiency disease
- dietetics
- intake
- low-calorie
- macrobiotic
- malnourished
- nutraceutical
- nutritional
- nutritious
- slimmer
- vegetarian
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