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Dietary supplement
Answer for the clue "Dietary supplement ", 7 letters:
vitamin
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Word definitions for vitamin in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vitamin \Vit"a*min\ (v[imac]t"[.a]*m[i^]n), n. any of several organic chemical substances not synthesized by an animal and required in small quantities for normal metabolism, present in and obtained from the natural foods eaten by the animal. Human vitamins ...
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By convention the term vitamin includes neither other essential nutrients , such as dietary minerals , essential fatty acids , or essential amino acids (which are needed in greater amounts than vitamins) nor the great number of other nutrients that promote ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific ...
Usage examples of vitamin.
The results flashed back almost instantly: high in ascorbic acid and in several B-complex vitamins, as well as containing several highly rated flavor esters.
It has been found, for example, that when given in massive doses some of the vitamins -- nicotinic acid and ascorbic acid for example -- sometimes produce a certain heightening of psychic energy.
The raw egg in a Caesar salad contains avidin, which binds up the B vitamin called biotin in much the same way.
He was caged between surgeries, fed raw meat and vitamin injections, anesthetized and programmed in ways that are sophisticated even for today: biofeedback, subliminal conditioning.
And a vitamin E blocker in raw kidney beans, alfalfa, and some peas increases the incidence of liver disease in animals.
Nutrition blockers are chemicals that bind with some desirable vitamin or mineral and prevent your intestines from absorbing it.
It gives you 892 milligrams of potassium and well over your daily requirement for vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B2, vitamin B12, and folacin, not to mention half of your daily requirement for niacin, B6, and iron, and good doses of calcium, zinc, and B1.
This salad is healthy, offering 720 milligrams of potassium and meaningful doses of calcium, vitamin A, and folic acid.
When they were not starving themselves into low blood sugar and a vitamin deficiency, or beating themselves into intoxication by histamine, adrenalin, and decomposed protein, they were cultivating insomnia and praying for long periods in uncomfortable positions, in order to create the psycho-physical symptoms of stress.
There is the risk of an innovator bringing out and doing the right job with vitamins as Hoffmann-LaRoche did, or with nylon as did Du Pont.
Consumption of Salad Ingredients Can Cause Vitamin Deficiency, Bad Skin, Lathyrism, Anemia, and, Quite Frankly, Death.
Her curly brown hair shined with megadoses of vitamin A, the tawny bare arms glowed from adequate lutein consumption, her eyes sparkled with high-concentrate beta-carotene.
Amount of fat in the diet affects bioavailability of lutein esters but not of alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, and vitamin E in humans.
The molecule of rhodopsin is made up of two parts: a protein, opsin, and a nonprotein portion, very similar in structure to vitamin A, which is retinene.
The orthomolecular vitamin diet, perhaps that did it, perhaps it really did heighten synchronous firing of the two hemispheres of my brain.