Recommended by the Educational and Methodological Association for Medical and Pharmaceutical Education of Russian Universities as a training manual for students of medical universities . The book presents one of the most comprehensive domestic guides to human nutrition. It describes in a systematic form the main phenomena, factors, physiological and social processes that are the subject of nutrition science - nutrition science. The range of issues under consideration includes ideas about food and food substances, their consumption, assimilation, metabolism, transport, utilization and elimination, the processes of exchange and absorption of food energy, as well as factors affecting the consumption and choice of food by humans. The manual presents the main sections of modern science of human nutrition, taking into account world experience, but closely related to Russian reality, with national and cultural traditions that have developed in the nutrition of the population of Russia. For the first time in the domestic literature, the basics of nutrition epidemiology as a branch of nutrition science that studies quantitative relationships between the nature of nutrition and health status, considering nutrition factors as risk factors or prevention of major non-communicable diseases . For the first time, the concepts of physiological human need for food substances and energy, which are very specific and fundamental for nutrition science, are highlighted .. A separate part sets out the principles and rules of a healthy diet based on the free choice of food, which is of interest to doctors and other specialists as a concept of organizing propaganda and education of the population in this area. The manual is intended for students of higher medical educational institutions, graduate students, researchers and doctors of all specialties who want to master the knowledge of the basics of human nutrition. File: raw scan, have OCR, no cover, no table of contents