Diet Quality and Diet-Environment Interactions on Human Health and Disease
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 39526
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dietary bioactive compounds; nutrition and cardiovascular disease; diet and chronic disease risk factors
Interests: signaling properties of nutrients on the immunology—T2DM axis; nutrition interventions for T2DM risk reduction and/or T2DM management improvement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is with much anticipation and excitement that we are announcing our call for papers for the Special Issue of IJERPH titled: “Diet quality and diet-environment interactions on human health and disease”. Metabolic deregulation and disease, such as cardiovascular, type 2 diabetes mellitus, autoimmune diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, as well as immunity effectiveness and susceptibility to infections, are all major issues in the global health scene. When these are combined with a highly burdened environment and changing lifestyles due to factors such as epidemiological transition and new infectious agents, the health stressors and challenges maximize. As nutrition/diet become increasingly more established in a multitude of ways as contributors to health/disease along with other environmental factors, it becomes crucial and timely to investigate the effect of the interplay of nutrition/diet and the environmental inputs on human health. Diet in relation to environmental stressors, exposures, lifestyle practices and how those affect health and disease (either risk or management and prognosis) are of critical importance when thinking of recommendations and public health strategies. We therefore welcome work on the interface of nutrition, metabolism, genomics, epigenetics, microbiome, immunity and environmentally derived inputs for submission in this Special Issue.
Dr. Aleksandra S. KristoDr. Angelos K. Sikalidis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutrition
- diet
- dietary interventions
- epigenetics
- environmental stressors
- exposures
- chronic disease
- epidemiology
- immunity
- inflammation
- metabolism
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