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Lactuca virosa. Lactuca virosa is a plant in the Lactuca (lettuce) genus, often ingested for its mild analgesic and sedative effects. [2] It is related to common lettuce (), and is often called wild lettuce, bitter lettuce, laitue vireuse, opium lettuce, poisonous lettuce, tall lettuce, great lettuce [3] or rakutu-karyumu-so.
According to these two organizations, health diets are: Adequate, as they meet, without exceeding, our body’s energy and essential nutrient requirements in support of all the many body functions. Diverse, as they include various nutritious foods within and across food groups to help secure the sufficient nutrients needed by our bodies.
Healthy People is a program of a nationwide health-promotion and disease-prevention goals set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.The goals were first set in 1979 "in response to an emerging consensus among scientists and health authorities that national health priorities should emphasize disease prevention".
Preventive nutrition has been known about for a long time. The philosopher Hippocrates (460-377 BC) believed that nutrition had a significant impact on maintaining health and that the best way to prevent diseases was to "let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.” [4] Meyer-Abich (2005) also believed that nutrition was foundational to a healthy life. [7]
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