Preventive Nutrition (2nd ed.)

Nutrition has been recognized as a major determinant of health for centuries. Tradi­ tionally, nutritional sciences have primarily targeted the prevention of diseases resulting from clinical deficiencies of essential nutrients, such as scurvy and rickets. Contempo­ rary nutritional research has focused on the prevention of major diseases of Western civilization, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as promoting mater­ nal and child health and healthy aging. Heart disease and c