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Article: Medicinal properties of natural nutrients and extracts that favor oral health.(Therapeutic Nutrition)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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"Functional foods," "nutraceuticals," "designer foods" and "medicinal foods" are terms that describe properties above and beyond the simple nutritive value of many items available in the daily menu. Researchers, healthcare practitioners, laypersons, and the popular media use such terms interchangeably. Foods in this category contain natural ingredients that promote health by specific metabolic actions such as modulating the inflammatory response, inhibiting the growth of pathogenic organisms, promoting healing, fortifying tissue integrity, and hindering malignant transformation. They are natural medicines.
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