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Pharmacognosy 2019
March 11-12, 2019
London, UK
American Journal of Ethnomedicine
ISSN: 2348-9502
Page 60
Pharmacognosy and
Medicinal Plants
7
th
Edition of International Conference on
Am J Ethnomed 2019, Volume 6
DOI: 10.21767/2348-9502-C1-009
Recent advances in nutritional medicine
Yu-Lan Chiang
Red House Children’s Hospital, China
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n reality, nutritionmatters far more than calories, protein,
fat and carbohydrates, etc. Recent studies in the USA
found nutrition has the relationship with mood and has
the characteristic of anti-inflammation and even has
the function to lower blood pressure such as DASH diet.
Nutritional medicine is a science based medicine and
sees each person as an integrated whole. It looks for the
underlying causes, which, although often partly genetic,
are usually very much, tied up with nutritional, lifestyle
and environmental factors. It provides a holistic outlook
on how nutrition impacts health, the relationship between
diet and disease, as well as a focused understanding
of how nutritional, dietary, lifestyle and environmental
factors impact wellbeing through the lifespan. Nutritional
medicine combines food as medicine traditions and
dietary therapy with recent scientific advances in
nutritional biochemistry and therapeutics, which are
now used by naturopathic, conventional and holistic
practitioners alike in USA.