The Domains of Human Nutrition: The Importance of Nutrition Education in Academia and Medical Schools.

ABSTRACT: Human nutrition encompasses an extremely broad range of medical, social, commercial, and ethical domains and thus represents a wide, interdisciplinary scientific and cultural discipline. The high prevalence of both disease-related malnutrition and overweight/obesity represents an important risk factor for disease burden and mortality worldwide. It is the opinion of Federation of the Italian Nutrition Societies (FeSIN) that these two sides of the same coin, with their sociocultural background, are related to a low "nutritional culture" secondary, at least in part, to an insufficient academic training for health-care professionals (HCPs). Therefore, FeSIN created a study group, composed of delegates of all the federated societies and representing the different HCPs involved in human nutritio

SUBMITTER: Donini LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5320893 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature