Diabetes, nutrition and metabolic diseases is the medical specialty that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of patients with metabolic disorders.
Diabetes mellitus is a condition characterized by an increase in blood sugar accompanied or not by increased insulin resistance with changes in metabolism: carbohydrate, lipid, protein.
Nutrition studies the energy needs and nutritional principles involved in the normal development of the body, the relationship between food intake and energy consumption and the consequences of excess food or nutritional deficiencies.
Metabolic diseases are characterized by excessive accumulation of certain chemical compounds with neurological, hepatic, cardiac, delayed somatic development.