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The medicine called nutrition

1979

Mason, Dean T. | Guthrie, Helen Andrews | Atkinson, Richard L.

Abstract: A teaching program incorporates information about contemporary nutrition: how it helps prevent disease and how it helps to treat disease. The metabolic pathways of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates are discussed; how the pathways interlock is explained. Choosing foods for health is discussed. The cause and effect between diet and disease; hypertension and atherosclerosis; obesity, cancer, and diabetes, are discussed. (kbc).

AGROVOC Keywords

deficiency diseases diet diet therapy diet therapy disease prevention nutrients nutrition nutrition

Bibliographic information

Publisher

Medical Education Programs

Other Subjects

Eating habits; Diet in disease; Nutritional physiological phenomena; Nutrition and health education; Health and pathology

Language

English

Note

guest coeditors Dean T. Mason and Helen Guthrie ; with Richard L. Atkinson [and others].

Includes bibliographical references.

Type

Text; Bibliography; Monographic

Corporate Author

CPC International. Best Foods Division.

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Modification date: 2025-04-24

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