title: Molecular and transcultural nutrition.
abstract: Nutritional medicine presents significant educational and clinical challenges worldwide. Major issues include physician shortages as a result of inadequate training, increasing prevalence of metabolic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, and atherosclerosis, incorporation of molecular medicine into our understanding of nutrition, and lastly, an emergent transcultural variable that affecting implementation strategies. Examples of translating specific molecular targets to culturally sensitive food-based therapies are given.
authors.affiliation: Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA. jeffreymechanick@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jeffrey Ian
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Mechanick
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D055432:Metabolomics; D058990:Molecular Targeted Therapy; D044623:Nutrition Therapy; D052756:Nutritional Sciences; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy; D044469:Racial Groups