RT Book, Section
A1 Nestle, Marion
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141961895
T1 Nutrition in Public Health and Preventive Medicine
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141961895
RD 2024/04/24
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.