Part I. Ayurvedic Fundamentals of Food and Nutrition -- Ayurvedic Principles of Food and Nutrition: Translating the Theory into Evidence Based Practice -- The Basic Tenets of Ayurvedic Dietetics and Nutrition -- Concept of Diet in Ayurveda and its implications to the modern world -- Applying Ayurvedic Eating Principles to the Science of Stress linked Food Behavior -- Part II. Integrated food science and its clinical application -- Integrating the Science and Art of Using Food as Medicine -- Integrated Food and Nutrition in the Management of Diabetes -- Convalescent Food Practices in Ayurveda -- Food based interventions for cancer management - an Ayurvedic perspective -- Food Based Therapeutics: A Converging Paradigm of Traditional and Modern Food Science -- Fasting as a Curative Practice: Historical, Traditional and Contemporary Perspective -- Part III. Ayurvedic Food Science: Challenges of proving its uniqueness in the purview of Science -- A scientific examination of western dietary practicesas they relate to food practices in Ayurveda -- From book to bedside: Challenges of translating Ayurvedic science of food and nutrition for the common benefits.