Introduction to Clinical Nutrition

Malnutrition as a health problem. Classification of nutritional diseases. Discussion of over-nutrition, diseases due to biological and chemical toxicants in foods. Diet and dental diseases. Diet and cancer. Nutritional basis of diseases-renal, liver, G.I Diabetes, hypertension etc. nutritional application to management of diseases. Nutritional problems of public health importance. Causes of Nutritional problems. Prevention of nutritional problems. Inborn errors of metabolism, metabolic diseases and allergies.  Nutrition in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, aged, pregnancy and lactation.  Nutrition and immunity. Parental nutrition.  Review of infant feeding practices in Nigeria and other countries.