Nutrition

The Lancet: "From the Latin nutrire, to suckle, nurse, or nourish, the word came into English via Middle French to mean supplying or receiving nourishment - a meaning that it retains to this day. The importance of proper nutrition was recognised early: Hippocrates advised, "let your food be your medicine and your only medicine be your food" - an idea that has echoes in the modern expression "you are what you eat". The word is rarely used figuratively, although the idea of "spiritual nutrition" appears in religious writings of the 16th and 17th centuries. Nutrition was also used from an early period for the nutritive contents or properties of food itself."/.../