Epidemiology and Public Health

Nutritional Epidemiology

The study of dietary and nutritional factors in relation to disease occurrence at the population level is known as nutritional epidemiology. Nutritional epidemiology is a relatively new field of medical research that investigates the link between diet and health. It is a relatively new field of epidemiology that is becoming increasingly relevant to contemporary health concerns. Diet and physical activity are difficult to accurately measure, which may explain why nutrition has received less attention in epidemiology than other risk factors for disease. Nutritional epidemiology employs nutritional science knowledge to aid in the understanding of human nutrition and the explanation of fundamental underlying mechanisms.