Health-Promoting Components of Foods in Human Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 154375
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Mediterranean diet; nutraceuticals and functional food; polyphenols; unsaturated fatty acids; nutrigenomics; gene expression; cell signaling; molecular targets; inflammation; atherosclerosis; angiogenesis; cardiometabolic diseases
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Interests: pathogenesis of chronic disese; nutri- and pharmacogenomics applied to obesity and cardiovascular disease prevention; analysis of the anti-aterogenic and anti-inflammatory properties of nutritional fatty acids and plant food bioactives in the field of vascular biology and physical exercise; analysis of dietary patterns and nutritional status in health and chronic disease
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Dietary habits are recognized as key determinants of well-being, longevity, and chronic disease prevention. Healthy eating lifestyles, including Mediterranean diets, are characterized by many different beneficial bioactive components which include, but are not limited to, the classical long chain fatty acids of the omega-3 series, oleic acid, and antioxidant polyphenols, as well as a huge mass of new phytochemicals which are spread throughout the entire vegetable kingdom, from fruits and its beverages, to whole cereals, legumes, and spices.
Deeper evaluations of the healthy activities of such food components have accumulated in recent years in humans and in experimental models of disease. Many different mechanisms underlining their protective effects have been widely documented, including the reduction of oxidative stress and inflammation, the regulation of gene expression, cell signaling, and metabolism. However, many aspects related to the bioactivity of these compounds in different clinical settings remain to be clarified, and further studies are invoked to establish novel health effects of individual components as well as their synergistic combination and the influences with the host microbiota.
Furthermore, the assessment of the individual responsivity to the different bioactive components should also be considered in the final evaluation of the health-promoting effects of these compounds.
This Special Issue entitled “Health-Promoting Components of Foods in Human Health” welcomes the submission of either original research manuscripts or reviews of the scientific literature, concerning biological properties of new and classical dietary bioactive compounds, nutraceutical or functional food, their metabolism, and bioavailability in different clinical and experimental settings of disease.
We sincerely hope that this Special Issue will advance our understanding of how specific health-promoting components of foods can contribute towards long-term health maintenance and disease prevention in humans, looking towards personalized nutrition.
Dr. Maria Annunziata Carluccio
Dr. Marika Massaro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nutraceuticals
- Phytochemicals
- Polyphenols
- Nutritional fatty acids
- Oxidative stress
- Inflammation
- Chronic and degenerative diseases
- Functional food
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