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Health Food
Health food is a term that has been used in the United States since the 1920s and refers to specific foods claimed to be especially beneficial to health.
In contrast to a regular healthy diet, proponents of health foods claim that particular foods have specific favorable effects on health. Examples of health foods include alfalfa sprouts, wheat germ and yogurt. Natural foods and organic food are related categories. Health foods are sold in health food stores or in the health/organic section of supermarkets.
The term is often used for foods that are low in fat and/or sugar, since overconsumption of fatty and sugary foods is seen as contributing to the obesity epidemic.
Nutrition Advice
Nutritionist, unlike dietitian, is not currently a protected term. Although there are a considerable number of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in nutrition in the UK, anyone can refer to himself or herself as a nutritionist without any formal qualifications. Different organizations use their own criteria to define a nutritionist. According to one of these, the Nutrition Society of the UK, the function of a nutritionist is to elicit, integrate, disseminate and apply scientific knowledge drawn from the relevant sciences, to promote an understanding of the effects of nutrition, and to enhance the impact of food on health and well-being of animals and/or people. They accredit nutritionists, conferring the titles Associate Nutritionist and Associate Public Health Nutritionist. For these they consider an undergraduate training sufficient for associate membership. Full registration as a , Registered Nutritionist, (R Nutr.), or Registered Public Health Nutritionist (RPHNutr) requires at least three years work experience and the fulfilment of key competencies required to operate safely and effectively. They must also agree to abide by a code of ethics and maintain their standards for working with the public
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the procedure of inserting and manipulating filiform needles into various points on the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes. The word acupuncture comes from the Latin acus, "needle", and pungere, "to prick". In Standard Mandarin, acupuncture is called (zhēnbiān), or a related word, (zhēnjiǔ), which refers to acupuncture together with moxibustion. According to traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture points are situated on meridians along which qi (a "life energy"), flows. Modern acupuncture texts present them as ideas that are useful in clinical practice and continue to inform the practice of acupuncture, but there is no evidence to support their existence and they have not been reconciled with contemporary knowledge about biology, physics or chemistry.
The earliest written record of acupuncture is the Chinese text Shiji ( English: Records of the Grand Historian) with elaboration of its history in the second century BCE medical text Huangdi Neijing (English: Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon). Different variations of acupuncture are practiced and taught throughout the world