V. Premala Priyadharsini ¹, Huidrom Nidhi Kumari ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

Abstract

More than twenty-five years into tine HIV/AIDS pandemic, the disease still remains one of tine most serious challenges to global public health. Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV) takes over certain immune system cells to make many copies of it and causes slow but constant damage to the immune system. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is the condition of related symptoms that are caused by severe HIV infection. AIDS makes the body vulnerable to life-threatening illnesses called opportunistic infections.

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V. Premala Priyadharsini ¹, K. Sarojini ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN

Abstract

Change in life style, food import, fast foods and rising consumption of sugar and animal fat account for rising global rates of hypertension and its associated disorders. In India the prevalence of hypertensive is around fifty one percent among adults as per 1991 census and there are about twenty two million people with hypertension.

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V. Premala Priyadharsini

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The importance of nutrition in the management of diseases both communicable and non-communicable disease is gaining significant prominence recently. This book edited by Remy F. Meier, B. Ravinder Reddy and Peter B. Soeters titled “The importance of nutrition as an integral part of disease management-a Nestle nutrition institute workshop series takes us to an intellectual journey on nutritional practices in the hospital setting for specially who are critically ill.

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