Abstract:Food is the necessity of life. People are concerned with the food so far as it relieves their hunger or satisfies their appetite, and not with whether it supplies their body with all components of good nutrition. Once inside the alimentary tract, the appeal for different types, forms, textures, flavors of food is no longer relevant, because the processes of digestion reduce them all to the same common denominators in a size and form capable of absorption and transportation to individual cells thus providing nu… Show more
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