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Ideal nutrition, elemental, parenteral nutrition
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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
One of the ideas that is a consequence of the theory of balanced nutrition is the creation of ideal food and ideal nutrition. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, the basic concept concerning the improvement of food and nutrition emerged. Thus, already in the 19th century, the idea arose of creating the most improved food by enriching food products with substances directly involved in metabolism and by discarding ballast substances.
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