"Defining nutrition"

Excerpts Taken from "Clinical Nutrition", October 1995 By Howard D. Loomis, Jr. D.C. FICA

Webster dictionary: "the process of providing or receiving nourishing substances; food, nourishment, the study of nourishment and nutrition."

Stedman dictionary: "A function of living plants and animals, consisting of the taking in and assimilation through chemical changes of material (metabolism) whereby tissue is built up and energy liberated; its successive stages is known as digestion, absorption, assimilation, and excretion; in highly organized animals digestion and deglution, and excretion is affected by expiration, perspiration, urination, and defecation."

The Council on Food and Nutrition for the American Medical Association defines nutrition as:"The science of food, the nutrients and other substances therein, their action, interaction, and balance in relation to health and disease and the process by which the organism ingest, digests, absorbs, transports, utilizes and excretes food substances."

According to the Food and Drug Administration, in accordance with the Food and Cosmetic Act of 1913 and subsequent modifications, define food as anything humans normally ingest as part of the diet unless medical claims are made for it, then it is considered to be a drug.
Additionally they state that only drugs can alter the normal functioning of the human body, not foods.

So, if food substances do not require "digestion" are they "foods", or "drugs"?

If "digestion", or the digestive process is the determining factor as to rather a food substance is a "drug" then is it any wonder why the A.M.A. is lobbying to designate most nutritional supplements as prescription items?

Webster: defines a drug as, "a substance other than food, intended to affect the structure or function of the body of a man or other animal."

On this you can rely; whole natural foods are and always have been best for man. Dr.B