Healthy diet. The role of dietary supplements

The book sets out modern issues of healthy (optimal) and medical nutrition. The characteristic of macro- and micronutrients is given. Particular attention is paid to the use of specialized foods in the nutrition, in particular biologically active food additives (dietary supplements) The mechanisms of their actions are disclosed.
Material is presented, including the use of dietary supplements against a healthy diet in athletes, elderly people, pregnant and lactating women. The issues of the use of dietary supplements in the treatment (diet therapy) of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, the bone-consumer system, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, to improve the skin condition are highlighted.
The publication is intended for doctors-therapists, dietaryists, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, hygieneists, epidemiologists and other specialists, as well as students of senior medical universities, intern, residents, graduate students