Nutritional medicine / clinical nutrition medicine is an area of medicine that seeks to identify and treat disorders in the human body that result from improper or inadequate diet, or from clinical or pre-clinical conditions that make the body unable to optimally handle the nutrients delivered to it in the normal diet. The usual treatment is dietary and through the consumption of nutraceuticals. Nutraceuticals are defined as foods, food-derived compounds, dietary supplements, or natural food additives that have been demonstrated to offer health benefits.