Can proper diet and nutrition act as preventive medicine

Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary, in the form of food to support life. Whereas preventive medicine is the part of medicine useful for preventing disease rather than curing it. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with good nutrition.

Nutrients are the most essential things that may be required for keeping a body healthy. There are mainly six types of nutrients that may be required for keeping a person healthy, they are proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, water and vitamins. Health of a person may become ill if in case the balance of the nutrients (may become excess or deficiency may be there) is disturbed and thus is becomes essential to keep the level of all the six nutrients intact. As the all the nutrients are involved in cell to cell signaling excess or deficiency of these nutrients may affect the hormonal functioning in a person.

According to report by WHO, “Nutrition is an input to and foundation for health and development. Interaction of infection and malnutrition is well-documented. Better nutrition means stronger immune systems, less illness and better health. Better nutrition is a prime entry point to ending poverty and a milestone to achieving better quality of life.”

The relationship between diet and states of health and disease is the nutrition. According to most of the dietitians nutritional supplements are the fuel for a health body. Good nutrition is vital to good health, disease prevention, and essential for healthy growth and development of children and adolescents. These days, a wealth of nutrition information is at your finger tips. From diet books to newspaper articles, everyone seems to have an opinion about what you should be eating. It’s no secret that good nutrition plays an essential role in maintaining health. Diet can also play a major role in recovering from many diseases.

A simple example to quote: According to researchers, taking additional vitamin D every day may help to reduce or eliminate chronic pain due to arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, headaches and other types of pain.

So can we say that proper diet and nutrition acts as preventive medicine!!!!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive_medicine

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