Clinical Nutrition

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) also known as chronic diseases are usually of long duration and are the result of a combination of genetic physiological environmental and behavioral factors; they disproportionately affect the inhabitants of several countries around the world and are responsible for more than three quarters of the world''s deaths.Among these diseases are: Obesity diabetes mellitus cardiovascular respiratory renal and cancer.This book extracts the main criteria for the nutritional management of NCDs based on Clinical Practice Guidelines suggested supplementation as well as a series of functional foods for their better management.