Dietary and Nutritional Guidelines for People with Diabetes

Dear Colleagues,

Diabetes is known to be a major global health problem, affecting up to 500 million people worldwide, or about 9% of the adult population. Medical nutrition therapy occupies a central place in diabetes management strategies and is probably the most important part of diabetes prevention and treatment. While recent advances in research have improved our understanding of nutritional and dietary risk factors for diabetes, evidence regarding these emerging nutritional and dietary risk factors remains limited. Nutrition is key to better management of diabetes today because nutrition is involved in the pathophysiology of diabetes by affecting insulin sensitivity and secretion. There is a clear effect when nutrients are absorbed: quantitatively speaking, a high-calorie intake leads to obesity, which in most cases leads to insulin resistance. However, the quality of nutrition is likely to play a crucial role, although the correlation is less certain and the exact mechanism is still largely unknown. Other questions still need to be addressed, such as the appropriate carbohydrate intake, how foods affect insulin doses, and whether combinations of nutrients—that is, specific "diets"—are more relevant than individual nutrients.

Our goal is to delve into the latest strategies of nutrition and diet in the treatment and management of diabetes, hopefully providing more scientific and innovative nutrition and diet guidelines for patients with diabetes. We invite clinicians and researchers to submit relevant scientific work, whether original articles or reviews, to this Special Issue on “Dietary and Nutritional Guidelines For People With Diabetes“.

Prof. Dr. Daisuke Yabe
Prof. Dr. Katsumi Iizuka
Guest Editors

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