supernutrition

noun

Etymology

From super- + nutrition.

  1. derived from nutritio
  2. derived from nutricion
  3. borrowed from nutrition
  4. prefixed as supernutrition — “super + nutrition

Definitions

  1. The presence of excessive quantities of nutrients, especially such as leads to…

    The presence of excessive quantities of nutrients, especially such as leads to hypertrophy or to excessive growth.

    • The principal feature of carcinomatous cell proliferations can be denoted as hypermitosis, depending upon supernutrition of the cells.
  2. The ingestion of large amounts of nutrients

    The ingestion of large amounts of nutrients; Hyperalimentation.

    • This text explains in layperson's terms how supernutrition, magnetic therapy and other cutting edge therapies can offer hope to those suffering from so-called untreatable conditions.
    • Although both skeletal and dental development can be delayed by undernutrition or advanced by supernutrition, the dentition is much more resistant to environmental effects than is the skeleton[…]
  3. Overeating.

    • Biernacki (1909) sought to determine with dogs the effects of "supernutrition" on mineral metabolism. The foods added to the standard diets were butter, sugar and eggs.
    • But how to change attitudes and habits in nutrition when global acting enterprises earn their money by selling billion tons of sugar and meat followed by drugs to cure diseases caused by supernutrition.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for supernutrition. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA