Nutritional status and disease

Clinical Nutrition
Lesson 1: Clinical Nutrition

Nutritional status and disease

Individuals together with environmental factors are responsible for ensuring good nutritional status of population. The individual is at the central position and health or disease is governed by his environment. Identifying defects at each level from household, community and at the physical level with allocation of resources would help ensuring nutritional welfare of the population.

Diseases may in turn affect nutritional status by:

  1. Decreasing the intake of nutrients
  2. Altering the metabolism of nutrients (or unusual losses)
  3. Altering energy expenditure.
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