New Avenues for Dietary Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Its Complications
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Diabetes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 9929
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pathology; kidney; diabetic nephropathy; dietary intervention for diabetes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Adjustment of dietary habits is the mainstay approach to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes mellitus, which with its allied conditions, obesity and the metabolic syndrome, constitutes the major health problem in the western society, both in terms of patient’s quality and expectancy of life and of costs for the health care system. Hyperglycemia can be reduced in most cases by a combined program of dieting, weight loss and a step-up in physical activity, which should match the patient’s attitudes and preferences. Furthermore, in subjects at high risk of diabetes on account of obesity and the metabolic syndrome this combined program can effectively prevent the diabetes onset.
Nutrients with possible distinctive effects to prevent type 2 diabetes and its micro and macro vascular complications have been extensively studied in the last decade with a view to producing a consensual best-practice protocol. Several authors have supported the favorable effects of nutraceuticals, more often those of plant origin. Compliance with the new regimen could be enhanced if functional foods and supplements are suggested, for they are often preferred by many patients because of their naturopathic connotation. Not surprisingly, scientific interest in these foods has often been prompted by folk medicine beliefs and ethnic fare preferences.
Dr. Carlo M. Pesce
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutraceuticals
- diet
- diabetes mellitus
- obesity
- metabolic syndrome
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