Plant and Seafood Nutrients for Potentiating Cardio-Metabolic Disease Prevention
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 7
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Interests: soy bean; polyphenols; cardiovascular disease; epidemiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Daily food should be the source of a healthy long life.
The answer for what should be eaten for a healthy long life is being obtained by 24-hour urinary nutritional biomarker analyses of 61 populations in 25 countries, which were started in 1985 thanks to the coordination of the World Health Organization (WHO).
This study indicated the longest life expectancies of Japanese men and women in the world were associated with high seafood and soy consumption, revealed by the biomarkers of taurine from seafood and isoflavones from soy in the urine, but their healthy life expectancy for living independently is 10 years shorter than their longest average life expectancy in the world because of their excess salt intake observed in the Japanese consuming more seafood and soy.
The preventive effect of seafood and soy on stroke caused by cerebrovascular diseases due to excess salt intake was first experimentally proven in the stroke-prone hypertensive rats established by the Editor of this Special Issue in 1974.
Presently, populations in the world would be able to extend their healthy life expectancy if they could know their actual nutritional intake from plants and seafood with minerals and dietary fibers counteracting the adverse effect of excess salt and fat intakes and could improve their nutrition by their data of urinalysis.
If we can eat wisely by improving our dietary customs, we will be able to live well by preventing lifestyle-related diseases prevailing now in the world. We would be able to live healthy lives longer if we ate plant and seafood nutrients available on the Earth since the Paleolithic Age of our evolution for potentiating these disease preventions, as emphasized in this Special Issue published in the hope of “Eat wisely” and “Live well”.
We are looking forward to your contribution to this Special Issue on plants and seafood and their effects on cardio-metabolic disease prevention.
Prof. Dr. Yukio Yamori
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutritional biomarkers
- taurine
- isoflavone
- magnesium
- sodium
- potassium
- 24-hour urine
- morning spot urine replacing 24-urinary
- soy
- nuts
- pulses
- seaweeds
- fishes
- shell fishes
- grains
- squids
- carotenoids
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