supernutrition

Noun

supernutrition (uncountable)

1. The presence of excessive quantities of nutrients, especially such as leads to hypertrophy or to excessive growth.
   • The sarcomatous testicle, for example, as it was formerly called, in conformity with the nomenclature of the English surgeon, is merely a chronic enlargement of that organ, the result of inflammatory deposits and supernutrition of its proper structures.1866, Samuel David Gross, A System of Surgery
   • The result is that the veins become overcharged with blood, and we are taught by physiology that wherever there is overcharge of the venous circulation there results supernutrition, and primarily from that there develops new connective tissue.1889, Paul F. Munde/, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; volume 22 issue 1, page 516
2. 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.2000, Willam Philpott, Dwight Kalita, Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient and Magnetic Connections, →ISBN
   • 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[…]2009, Frederick E. Grine, John G. Fleagle, Richard E. Leakey, The First Humans: Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo, page 108
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.1914, Phosphorus in the body, page 435
   • 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.2012, Thomas Potthast, Simon Meisch, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, →ISBN, page 374