Fundamentals Of Food Nutrition & Diet Therapy

FOODS AND NUTRITION are essential for maintaining good health and to prevent disease. Although food occupies the first position in the hierarchical needs of man, ignorance of many basic facts relating to foods and nutrition is still widespread. Consequently, various nutritional disorders for which there are simple remedies such as blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency persist. Good nutrition is a function of both economics and education. In our country, the most serious form of nutritional disorder is undernutrition arising from inadequate purchasing power. However, even when purchasing power is adequate to acce