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When looking for information related to diet and nutrition, consider some of the following terms as you search for information:
- Alimentation
- Diet/dietary: dietetics, dieting, trends, fads, choices, guidelines
- Food: additives, allergies, choices, consumption, contamination, distribution, habits, handling, labeling, portions, processing, production, preferences, research, safety, storage, foodborne pathogens
- Health maintenance
- Nutrition, famine, malnutrition, human nutrition
- Nutritional: assessment/evaluation, health intervention, values
- Nutrition-related disease, genetic disease
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