Dietary Patterns Impact on Health and Inflammatory Diseases
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2032
Special Issue Editor
Interests: inflammation; inflammatory bowel disease; experimental colitis; Th17/Treg axis; gut microbiome; anti-inflammatory agent; polyphenols; pyridazinone derivatives
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The famous Hippocrates’ words of ‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’ and his ‘food as medicine’ philosophy, dating back about 2.500 years, are still very applicable today. Many clinical and epidemiological studies have shown a huge impact of diet on health and well-being. On the other hand, however, diet may influence inflammation, especially low-grade inflammation. Diet is also a risk factor for many diseases, including chronic inflammatory diseases, e.g., cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, or neurodegenerative diseases. Given that diet is a modifiable risk factor for disease, understanding the relationship between diet and disease is particularly important and can enable accurate public health recommendations to be made.
Although many individual nutrients have been shown to positively affect health or reduce the risk of chronic diseases, such an approach does not take into account the complexity of the diet and disease relationship, the antagonist, additive, or synergistic effects among nutrients, and the fact that a nutrient is not consumed separately but rather as part of a combination of nutrients of a diet as a whole. Therefore, the dietary pattern may be considered an important direction in nutritional epidemiology to find diet–disease relationships.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, entitled ‘Dietary Patterns’ Impact on Health and Inflammatory Diseases’, welcomes the submission of manuscripts, including original research, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses assessing the relationships (and their mechanisms) between dietary patterns and health, risk of disease, and disease outcomes, focusing especially on inflammatory diseases.
Dr. Marta Joanna Szandruk-Bender
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dietary pattern
- diet
- nutrition
- healthy food
- inflammation
- inflammatory mediators
- inflammatory disease
- lifestyle disease
- chronic disease
- noncommunicable diseases
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