Concept
Measurement Systems
Human Nutrition / Units of Measure
"In nutrition, there are two systems of commonly used measurements: Metric and US Customary. We need both because the US won’t adopt the metric system completely. These are commonly used prefixes for the Metric System: Micro- (μ) 1/1,000,000th (one millionth), Milli- (m) 1/1000th (one thousandth), Centi- (c) 1/100th (one hundredth), Deci- (d) 1/10th (one tenth), and Kilo- (k) 1000x (one thousand times)."
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