TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Nutrition in Public Health and Preventive Medicine A1 - Nestle, Marion A2 - Wallace, Robert B. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - The role of nutrition in public health and preventive medicine is self-evident: people must eat to live. Both inadequate and excessive food intake can adversely affect health, and both contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in every nation, developing as well as industrialized. Because all people consume food, all have an interest in the effects of diet on health. Nutrition, therefore, becomes an unusually accessible entry point into public health education and intervention programs. Because food intake is determined not only by individual choice but also by cultural and social norms, economic status, and agricultural and food policies, public health approaches to dietary intervention are not only appropriate, but necessary. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141961895 ER -