Objectives To provide Medicine students in particular, and Health Sciences students in general, up-to-date scientific information on those nutriology concepts that are most frequently required for an integral attention of the patient from a clinical perspective.

Review

For several decades, people have been worrying about the weak presence of nutriology -in its basic and practical aspects- within medical education programs in Mexico and other countries. The immediate consequence of the absence of nutriology is little participation among medics in solving nutrition problems that affect the family at different life-cycle stages.

Recently, this worry has motivated concrete actions in diverse faculties and medicine schools throughout the country. The design, elaboration, and revision of Medical Nutriology are part of that joint endeavor.

This work is an instrumental for the implementation of nutrition teaching, in a unified way, in the Medicine studies curriculum. It seeks to integrate nutrition concepts and methods dispersed among medical education topics, both in normal conditions as in pathologic states of different nature.

The first edition of this book was published in 1995, under the auspices of Nestle Nutrition Fund. Due to the selling out of the first edition, we had to make two reprints, in addition to the six thousand copies of the book distributed in Mexico, Central and South America. When the second reprint sold out, we considered it pertinent to revise and update the contents of the work, and the Technical Committee of the Nestle Fund decided to promote a new edition.

In this second edition some topics have been thoroughly expanded, with the end of offering the reader a wider vision on the way nutrition and nourishment influence the expression of genetic potential throughout the life cycle, without loosing the preventive and applicative viewpoint of the work as a whole-that is, without quitting the emphasis on those practices that have shown their effectiveness within the clinic and epidemiological fields in promoting health (in general terms), and at the same time preventing or delaying the appearance of the most common illnesses among different age-groups.

It's important that we mention the new inclusion of a chapter on physical activity, not only because we consider this type of activity as being the main, and most variable, component of energetic expense, but because it is becoming increasingly frequent to find in it a fundamental factor in the prevention of continuous diseases. We think its evaluation and promotion should be as much part of the obligatory activities as the study of diet habits as regards the attention of the individual, whether ill or healthy.

An important characteristic of "Medical Nutriology" is the fact that most of its chapters were written in tandem-medic/nutriologist. This type of collaboration was not gratuitous-we specially searched for a collaboration of this kind among the professionals, who carried out their joint work on a daily basis attending the individuals under their care, which allowed them to provide an integral attention. The intention of imposing this kind of collaboration is to offer students from different disciplines the elements to enable them, during their academic formation, to clearly identify the roles and acting limits of their respective health team. At the same time, it contributes in generating a common language that eases communication between the people responsible for health care.

It is also important to recognize the advances that nutriology has had in the last years, which have enabled a more precise identification of the physiological and molecular mechanisms that determine how an individual responds to the environment. Incorporating in every chapter the information about recent discoveries on the subject is one of the aims of this new edition, but we must recognize that there is still a lot to explore as regards the study of that complex machine called the human being. In that respect this edition is doubtless an unfinished work.

Esther Casanueva
Martha Kaufer Horwitz
Ana Berta Pérez Lizaur
Pedro Arroyo
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