Nutritional medicine is really a completely new field for science; but it is as ancient as medicine and healing itself. Without the light and heat from the sun, this would be a dead world; without the oxygen in the air we breathe, our lives (including the lives of all our cells and tissues) would end; without the water we drink we, like all other organisms, cannot exist; without food we consume, we and all our cells and tissues would perish.
What we get and must get from the food we consume may be placed in two categories. First, we must get suitable fuel to furnish us with energy; second, we must get the raw materials necessary to build and maintain the metabolic machinery that makes it possible for us to burn the fuel and derive energy from it.
The study of Nutrition is a very informative and useful subject, not only for the future practitioner but for everyone. The knowledge gained will benefit the individual as well as their family.
