The animal products, such as meat, milk, skin, blood, honey, and urine, have medicinal value for human diseases. Due to having high-quality components, poultry meat has therapeutic value. The present review aimed to describe the medicinal values of poultry meat for individuals who consume it during their life. Most poultry meat is classified as white meat, which contains lower fat and higher protein, compared with the meat of ovine, bovine, and pig. This feature of poultry meat (lower fat and higher protein) helps its consumers to have a normal physiological function of different organ systems. Moreover, it prevents many non-infectious diseases, including overweight, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Selenium and low contents of carcinogenic substances (myoglobin, heme iron, and saturated fat) in poultry meat also prevent different types of cancers. Poultry meat is also recommended to avoid anemia, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. Dietary proteins, vitamins, and minerals in chicken meat are used for anti-aging, developing muscle and bone, improving the immune system, and increasing brain function. Traditionally, poultry is recommended as a supportive treatment for respiratory diseases, such as the common cold. Thus, consumption of poultry meat, especially chickens, up to 300g/once a week is recommended to prevent and reduce the risks of gastrointestinal cancers such as oesophageal cancer. Generally, regular consumption of poultry meat has health benefits for humans to prevent and reduce the risk of different diseases as chicken meat is a rich source of nutrition that can enhance the immunity system and tackle human disease risk factors. Keywords: Consumption, Health benefits, Meat, Poultry

Gastrointestinal tract is one of the organ systems which infected by different pathogenic organisms specifically the predilection sites for different parasites (helminthes and protozoa) which absorb the nutrient and predispose to another infection. The aim of this review was to provide an overview of the published information regarding the epidemiology and the diagnostic approaches of chicken helminthes infection and coccidiosis. The disease is the main constraints of poultry production in different parts of world and gastrointestinal parasite is the most common infections of poultries directly and predisposes to others different infection. The common internal parasitic infections occur in poultry include cestodes, nematodes and coccidian that may cause considerable damage and great economic loss to the poultry industry due to malnutrition, decreased feed conversion ratio, weight loss, lowered egg production and death in young birds. Furthermore, parasites can make the flock less resistant to diseases and exacerbate existing disease conditions. Poultry coccidiosis generates economic losses due to mortality, reduced body weight plus the expenses related to preventive and therapeutic control. More research and investigation related to epidemiology and risk factors of gastrointestinal parasite should apply to increase the poultry production.