11:709:364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Riboflavin, Blood Sugar, Niacin
12 May 2020
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Public health nutrition: the application of nutrition and public health principles to design programs, system, policies, and environments that aims to improve or maintain the optimal health of populations and targeted groups. Public health nutrition is a combination of science and art: existing scientific evidence regarding a specific nutritional issue is not always complete or consistent. Why is public health nutrition important: top leading causes of death in the us, 1) heart disease, 2) cancer, 3) chronic lower respiratory diseases, 4) accidents, 5) stroke, 6) alzheimers, 7) diabetes, preventable through nutrition. Public nutrition seeks to: prevent disease, prolong life, & promote health. In the developed world, diseases associated with over-nutrition are a problem. In the developing world, dual burden of diseases associated with both over and under nutrition: the availability and accessibility of sufficient health foods, and encouragement of people to eat them, fall within the domain of public health nutrition .
