Diet and Nutrition: Metabolic Diseases---2nd Edition
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 2163
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Interests: nutrition and metabolism; clinical nutrition; dietetics; diet therapy
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Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition (food) is composed of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, broken down by enzymes in the digestive system. The body uses these to store them in the liver, muscle tissues, or body fat.
Metabolic disorders are caused by deficiencies or excesses of nutrients that alter our state of health, deficiencies of the enzymes necessary for a specific chemical reaction, abnormal chemical reactions that make metabolic processes difficult, and organ diseases in the liver, pancreas, or endocrine glands.
The most common metabolic diseases are the two types of diabetes. The cause of Type 1 is unknown, and Type 2 can be acquired or potentially triggered by genetic factors. Prediabetes, metabolic syndrome, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, dyslipidemia, and arterial hypertension are the principal pathologies that are related to overweight and obesity, especially with abdominal fat distribution.
Glucose–galactose malabsorption, which creates a defect in transporting glucose and galactose through the stomach lining, causes severe diarrhea, with it being necessary to remove lactose, sucrose, and glucose from the diet. Phenylketonuria (PKU), caused by the inability to produce the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase, causes organ damage and mental retardation, and maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) disrupts the metabolism of certain amino acids, causing the degeneration of neurons.
Papers addressing these topics are invited to this Special Issue, especially those combining the relation of a person’s diet and nutrition in the prevention or the treatment of metabolic disorders.
Prof. Dr. Iñaki Elío
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- obesity
- overweight
- metabolic syndrome
- prediabetes
- diabetes
- bariatric surgery
- dyslipidemia
- eating behavior
- non-alcoholic fatty liver
- phenylketonuria
- maple syrup urine disease
- glucose-galactose malabsorption
- homocystinuria
- urea cycle disorder
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