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ONDINA TERRERO, Eumelia; ALVAREZ GOMEZ, José Luis; ALVAREZ GOMEZ, José Ángel  e  CARRERAS FERNANDEZ, Alicia P.. La orientación nutricional como elemento fundamental en la prevención y tratamiento de enfermedades. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2002, vol.18, n.5, pp.362-365. ISSN 0864-2125.

In this paper, general considerations are made on the importance of an adequate nutritional guidance to improve the health status of the population. Reference is also made to the effects produced by the incompatible combinations of food on the organism and a table that will help us in the daily selection of appropiate diets is shown. This way, we intend to call the attention of health professionals so that they develop the appropiate educative-preventive actions that they should put into practice with the population they attend, and have the basic training allowing them to carry out an efficient nutritional guidance as part of the comprehensive attention to the individual.

Palavras-chave : NUTRITION EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; APPLIED NUTRITION PROGRAMMES.