Relationship between specific foods-nutrients and disease

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Nutrition plays a vital role in a person's overall health and well-being. Not getting enough of the recommended nutrients over the long-term can lead to malnutrition which often results in disease and illness.

Address the following:

1. Define malnutrition and identify a specific disease that can result from it.

2. Perform library research about the selected disease, and explain its physiological effects on a person's body.

3. Describe the relationship between specific foods/nutrients and the disease. Use the questions below to guide your response.

Does research indicate that a lack of specific foods/nutrients increase a person's chance of contracting the disease?

a. Are there specific foods/nutrients that should be avoided by an individual afflicted with the disease?

b. How do specific foods/nutrients work physiologically within the body to help combat the disease?

4. Evaluate nutritional recommendations to help combat the disease.

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