Nutrition Abbreviations

What is Nutrition?

Nutrition is the process of providing animal and plant organisms with the nutrients necessary for life. It is also the science that investigates the relationship between food ingested by man and diseases, seeking well-being and the preservation of human health.

A nutritionist is a health professional who specializes in human nutrition and has an academic background in Nutrition. It is your responsibility to plan meals, prepare menus and control food and nutrition programs.

The nutritionist makes nutritional calculations of foods and decides the best ingredients to use in each meal. The locations of performance can vary between hotels, restaurants, schools, nursing homes, bakeries, supermarkets, etc.

In the clinical area, the nutritionist guides, individually or in groups, people who need a specific diet, such as obese, diabetic, hypertensive and others.

In addition to the natural way of ingesting food (orally), nutrition can also be done enterally (the food is placed directly into the digestive tract) or parenterally (the food is administered directly into the vein), in patients with special nutritional needs..

Good nutrition means prevention of chronic diseases, healthy living and quality of life. Many health problems can be avoided through a healthy diet, which follows the proper proportions of each food.

List of Acronyms Related to Nutrition