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Nutrition:

  1. It is defined as a physiological and biochemical process that gives organism support for its life.
  2. It includes ingestion, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism (the process of breaking food), and excretion.

Father of nutrition:

  1. Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier is the father of nutrition and chemistry; he discovered metabolism in 1770.
  2. He demonstrated that energy from food is derived due to oxidation of it.

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