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  1. 2. any short lived idea or craze about how or what people should eat often involving weight loss.
  2. 4. any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
  3. 5. the act or process of nourishing or of being nourished.
  4. 6. the act of absorbing.
  5. 8. a guideline made by health and welfare Canada to help Canadians make healthy eating and lifestyle choices.
  6. 11. nourishing; providing nourishment or nutriment.
  7. 12. Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms.
  8. 14. any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism, found in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs or sometimes produced synthetically: deficiencies of vitamins produce specific disorders.
  9. 15. food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health
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  1. 1. lack of proper nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced nutrition.
  2. 3. any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.
  3. 7. a person who does not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish, fowl, or, in some cases, any food derived from animals, as eggs or cheese, but subsists on vegetables, fruits, nuts, grain, etc.
  4. 9. a viscid, watery fluid, secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands, that functions in the tasting, chewing, and swallowing of food, moistens the mouth, and starts the digestion of starches.
  5. 10. any of various proteins, as pepsin, originating from living cells and capable of producing certain chemical changes in organic substances by catalytic action, as in digestion.
  6. 13. cattle fattened and ready for market.