~/.profile is not being loaded automatically when opening a new terminal in Mac OS X

I intend to put some environment variables in my '~/.profile' hoping to load them automatically every time I open a new terminal in Mac OS X, but it doesn't work by checking environment variables via `env` command.

The manual page shipping with Mac OS X explains this issue clearly:

it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order,
and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable.

I found that '~/.bash_profile' exists, hence the terminal will not go on finding and loading my '~/.profile'. It's recommended that we append the following code in '~/.bash_profile':

if [ -f ~/.profile ]; then
    source ~/.profile
fi

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