Perspectives on healthy eating, lifestyles and disease. The nutrition care process in the management of human diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver diseases, renal disease, cardiovascular diseases, gout and HIV/AIDS. Dietary deficiency diseases common in the tropics such as Iron deficiency anemia (IDA), Osteoporosis, Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM), Vitamin A deficiency Diseases (VAD), Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) and others