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Specific nutritional requirements

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The science of nutrition aims to define the overall quantity and individual constituents of nutrition for all of the human population.

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Eastwood, M. (1997). Specific nutritional requirements. In: Principles of Human Nutrition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3025-5_12

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