Nutritional status influences:
Illness and its treatment can impair eating or swallowing, interfere with digestion, absorption, metabolism, or excretion, and affect body functions, thereby altering nutritional status.
Good nutrition → good health; illness → impaired intake, utilization, and body function
1. What does nutrition study as a scientific field?
2. Which description best defines an individual’s nutritional status?
3. How can nutritional status affect the course of illness?
What is nutrition the science of?
Food, nutrients, and their digestion, absorption, and utilization by the body.
What does nutritional status describe?
An individual's health in terms of dietary nutrients and their use.
What does nutritional status influence in illness?
Prognosis, hospitalization duration, and recovery.
How can illness affect nutritional status?
By impairing eating, digestion, metabolism, or body functions.
What is clinical nutrition also called?
Medical nutrition therapy.
What does dietetics study?
The effect of diet on health.
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