Food Environment and Its Effects on Human Nutrition and Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 January 2024) | Viewed by 42766
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food additives and contaminants; metagenomics; gut microbiota; capillary electrophoresis; tandem mass spectrometry
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Dear Colleagues,
In addition to the proportions of foods we include in our diet, there are other conditioning factors that can affect the effects of these foods on human health. Thus, food contributions of bacteria, viruses, fungi, food additives, residues of chemical substances, or exoxomes can have an important effect on human health. Similarly, lifestyle factors, such as the timing of meals, gastronomy, food policies and labeling, or work type, also have a significant effect on human health.
At the same time, in the last decade, there has been a great advance in technologies capable of further study and research into these factors on food and human health. These technologies include epigenetics, epigenomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics. Disciplines such as chrononutrition and precision nutrition have also experienced enormous progress.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an update on the knowledge of all those environmental factors and disciplines that, although they do not modify the type of food ingested, do play an important role in human nutrition and therefore in the health of people, especially regarding metabolic diseases.
Dr. Jose M. Miranda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- additives
- chrononutrition
- epigenetics
- exosomes
- food labeling
- food policies
- metagenomics
- nutrigenomic
- nutrigenetics
- proteomics
- viruses
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