Discuss the connection between nutrition and disease. Be sure to include information about chronic diseases, as well as malnutrition and other leading causes of death. What you put into your body can have a direct effect on your overall health, if you eat healthy like fruits, vegetables and grains you will help your body from health problems like high blood pressure and blocked arteries can lead to serious heart conditions like heart disease. Proper nutrition can protect the body from some of these diseases and perhaps extend a person's life by a few years. I have found that dietary and nutritional considerations should be grounded in the sense of the overall picture of the population's health profiles. Some minority populations continue to face hunger, food insecurity and high rates of low birth weight.8,37,39 Unconditional advice to eat less or downplay high-calorie foods may be inappropriate in these cases. Non-disease-related causes of death, such as violence and accidents, and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are also focal points for reducing disparity. Particularly at younger ages, these other disparities are much more evident than disparities in diet-related chronic diseases, although chronic diseases have the potential to affect a larger proportion of the overall population. A global perspective is therefore needed to integrate these considerations and also to integrate the dietary perspective with the disease perspective outlined above” (Kumanyika, S,2006)Kumanyika, S. (2006). Nutrition and chronic disease prevention: Priorities for US minority groups. Nutrition Reviews, 64(2), S9-14. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/d ocview/21 2321529?accountid=32521...... middle of paper...... hydrolyze. Usually, detailed information on the digestion of basic nutrients is presented and learned in biochemistry courses, and detailed information on the absorption through transepithelial transport of digestion degradation products is studied in physiology courses. The goal of this Staying Current article is to combine details of the biochemistry of digestion with up-to-date information on the physiology of nutrient absorption into a single source for physiology teachers. Included are insights into some of the diseases and conditions that can cause malabsorption of food in the gastrointestinal tract and their consequences." (Goodman, B.E., 2010). Goodman, B. E. (2010). Insights into the digestion and absorption of major nutrients in humans. Advances in Physiology Education, 34(2), 44. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/375602938?accountid=32521