Community Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine for Kidney Health: Awareness of the Social Determinants of Health in Renal Nutrition

Community nutrition is the practice of nutrition education and implementation among groups of persons with the goal of promoting health and wellness and preventing or managing diseases by means of nutritional and dietary interventions at community level.1 It involves identification of unmet nutritional needs in a given community in order to design and apply nutrition and diet-related approaches to improve public health nutrition and health outcomes. Target communities can be diverse with different settings including workplaces or education centers such as schools, specific racial/ethnic groups, or persons at high risk of certain disease states such as those at risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD).