Every day, we are faced with an abundance of food and nutrition information and choices. Whether it's maintaining a healthful diet, navigating the shelves at your local grocery store, or fuelling up for physical exercises, making the smart food and nutrition choices is a necessary part of everyone's daily life. The principal objective of the book is to enable food and nutrition security conducive to good health, growth & development and increase productivity through dedicated research, so as to achieve the nutrition goals set by various agencies for healthy human development. The book explores the areas of food and eating habits from the perspective of the healthy diet as well as from the viewpoint of disease management and dietary intervention in clinical practice. The text takes the reader through the fundamental concepts of nutrition and the significance, effects and uses of the various elements of diet.