Nutrition therapy
Nutrition Therapy
Nutrition therapy (pronunciation: /nuːˈtrɪʃən θɛrəpi/) is a therapeutic approach to treating medical conditions and their associated symptoms via the use of a specifically tailored diet devised and monitored by a medical professional, dietitian, or professional nutritionist. The therapy aims at the recovery of an ill or injured patient and promotes healthy habits to prevent diseases.
Etymology
The term "nutrition" comes from the Latin word nutrire, meaning "to feed" or "to nourish", and "therapy" is derived from the Greek therapeia meaning "healing" or "curing".
Related Terms
- Dietitian: A health professional who has a Bachelor's degree, specializing in food and nutrition, and also has undergone a period of practical training in a hospital or community setting.
- Nutrient: A substance used by an organism to survive, grow, and reproduce.
- Dietary Supplement: A product intended for ingestion that contains a "dietary ingredient" intended to add further nutritional value to (supplement) the diet.
- Malnutrition: A condition that results from eating a diet in which one or more nutrients are either not enough or are too much such that the diet causes health problems.
- Metabolism: The set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.
- Calorie: A unit of energy. In nutrition, calories refer to the energy people get from the food and drink they consume, and the energy they use in physical activity.
See Also
- Diet (nutrition)
- Healthy diet
- Human nutrition
- Medical nutrition therapy
- Nutrient density
- Nutritionist
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Nutrition therapy
- Wikipedia's article - Nutrition therapy
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