Nutrition and Food Chemistry

Role of Nutrition in Disease Prevention

Nutritional Therapy is the application of nutrition science in the promotion of health, peak performance and individual care. It focusses on the therapeutic approach for dealing with nutritional related disorders and malnutrition.  It deals with Nutrition therapy and benefits, Nutrition and cancer and innovative treatments and Nutrition and Cancer- Clinical Studies. In 2011, the most recent year in which most of the countries reported data, the United States spent 17.7 per cent of its GDP on health care, whereas none of the other countries tracked by the OECD reported spending more than 11.9 per cent. The United States spends $8,508 per person, two and a half times more than the average of $3,322 for OECD countries. America spends about 50 per cent more than Norway, the next largest per capita spender.