#dietetics

• Acaloric — A term used in nutrition and biochemistry to describe a food, product, sweetener, or substance that provides no energy to the body upon ingestion, possessing a net zero or negligible caloric value. These substances pass through the digestive tract without being metabolized into energy-generating macronutrients, making them widely used in therapeutic dietary regimens, weight management, and the nutritional control of diabetes mellitus.
• Nutrition — The act or effect of feeding; the totality of physiological processes through which living organisms introduce, digest, and assimilate the nutrients necessary to sustain life, growth, and the proper functioning of biological systems; diet. Broadly or commercially, it designates the economic sector concerned with the production and distribution of edible goods.