Nutritionists or dietitians integrate and apply principles derived from nutrition, biochemistry, physiology, food management, and behavioral and social sciences to achieve and maintain people's health.
Human nutrition research units at American Colleges. The human nutrition centers/departmental units listed below offer nurition courses at undegraduate and graduate level and undertake research on promoting human health through nutrition.
The persistence of an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes suggests that new nutritional strategies are needed if the epidemic is to be overcome. A promising nutritional approach suggested by this thematic review is metabolic effect of low glycemic-index diet. Read more...
----------------------------------- Cancer and Nutrition: A review of the evidence for an anti-cancer diet
A low fat, high carbohydrate diet in combination with regular exercise is the traditional recommendation for treating diabetes. Compliance with these lifestyle modifications is less than satisfactory, however,... Read more...
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