Nutritional epidemiology

Nutritional epidemiology is a relatively new field of medical research that studies the relationship between nutrition and health. Diet and physical activity are difficult to measure accurately, which may partly explain why nutrition has received less attention than other risk factors for disease in epidemiology.

References

Michels K B (2003). "Nutritional epidemiology—past, present, future". Retrieved 23 November 2010.

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