Abstract:
:Diet is an essential component of most comprehensive health systems. Food figures prominently in the consciousness of most individuals, and the sensations of taste and smell are fundamentally important in human emotion. Complex configurations of dietary sanctions and strictures exist in virtually every human society, providing additional force to the power of diet. A wide variety of epidemiologic and laboratory-based studies have implicated a number of specific dietary factors in health and disease, with the former producing much in the way of equivocal evidence on most diet-health relationships and the latter often focusing so narrowly as to call into question the relevance of findings to human health. Assessing the role of diet as an important component of complementary and alternative medical treatment and preventive strategies will require a broad understanding of methodologic issues. Careful consideration of what is required to answer substantive questions in this intriguing and important area also will serve to advance the study of complementary and alternative modalities more generally.
journal_name
Altern Ther Health Medjournal_title
Alternative therapies in health and medicineauthors
Zander ME,Wargovich MJ,Hebert JRkeywords:
subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-11-01 00:00:00pages
56-61issue
6eissn
1078-6791journal_volume
10pub_type
杂志文章,评审