| Descriptor English: | Nutrition Ecology | ||||
| Descriptor Spanish: | 
                                Ecología de la Nutrición                                        
                                        
                                                                                                                            
                                            
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Ecologia da Nutrição | ||||
| Descriptor French: | Écologie de la Nutrition | ||||
| Tree number(s): | 
                                        SP6.180 | 
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| Scope note: | Interdisciplinary science that includes nutritional whole system, especially the effects of nutrition on health, the environment, society and economy. Therefore, all components within the food chain are studied: production, collection, preservation, storage, transport, processing, packaging, trade, distribution, preparation, composition and food consumption as well as waste disposal. (Leitzmann, 2003) | 
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| Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||
| DeCS ID: | 50341 | ||||
| Unique ID: | DDCS050341 | ||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | 
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| Scope note | Interdisciplinary science that includes nutritional whole system, especially the effects of nutrition on health, the environment, society and economy. Therefore, all components within the food chain are studied: production, collection, preservation, storage, transport, processing, packaging, trade, distribution, preparation, composition and food consumption as well as waste disposal. (Leitzmann, 2003) | 
| Preferred term | Nutrition Ecology | 
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