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Oh, my. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 151, diet and nutrition.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

Today, we're going to be doing the first in what hopefully will become a series of episodes

focusing on diet and nutrition.

So this is going to be largely an introductory episode.

We're going to talk about the major human

nutrients, so the macronutrients, carbohydrates, fats, amino acids, and then micronutrients,

vitamins, minerals, and other things like fiber. I'm then going to talk about different

types of malnutrition, so when nutrition is not adequate in various ways. So particularly

talking about undernutrition and overnutrition

as to different forms of sort of nutrition going wrong. We'll talk a bit about obesity and causes

of vitamin deficiencies and so forth. And then we'll conclude today's episode by talking about

basal metabolic rate, which affects how rapidly our bodies burn calories

which is obviously a very important component of in fact one of the major components of determining

the balance between weight gain and weight loss and so this will be useful background for a future

episode where I talk about the science between comparative diets.

Recommended pre-listing for this episode is episode 18, biochemistry basics. That will provide you

with some background relevant to some of the organic chemistry and biochemistry that I

discussed, particularly with respect to the macronutrients.

So without further ado, let's get started and start by talking about what is a nutrient.

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