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Excerpt from Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics
The term food may be applied to any material with the aid of which the body is able to maintain its characteristic functions: temperature regulation, the performance of work, the repair of wasted tissues, the production of new tissues, and those countless factors - connoted by digestion, absorption, circulation, etc. - involved in the preparation and transporta tion of the ingested food to the seat of action of the prime factor of organization, the cell.
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