The Role of Nutrition in Integral Health and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Recent Research

"Achieving integral health is a challenge that necessitates an approach from different disciplines to achieve a coordinated impact on people's health, of which food and nutrition is an integral part. This new book explores some important advances in the role of nutrition in integral health and quality of life, making special emphasis on the challenges that humans face in the era of sedentary lifestyle diseases associated with food consumption, stress from pandemics, and social, economic, environmental, and cultural crises. The chapters present interdisciplinary research that offers outstanding and novel contributions in research studies of integral health as affected by the nutrition and its effect on the quality of life. The volume discusses interdisciplinary approaches to nutrition, focusing on nutrition for children, the impact of nutrition on chronic noncommunicable diseases and gastrointestinal disorders, the nutritional profile of fermented foods and their health benefits, microstructured particles as bioactive compound carriers, and more. The chapters also offer analyses of obesity and its dimensions, covering childhood obesity risks and challenges at home and at school, quality of life in adult patients with diabetes, the socioeconomic dimensions of the problem, the role of genetics and epigenetics in obesity, and more. The impact of nutrition on oral and dental health is also addressed. Key benefits: Explains the main nutritional factors related to comprehensive health Looks at the issue of nutrition in an interdisciplinary way. Describe the aspects related to the deterioration of the quality of life due to poor nutrition This volume provides new reflections and knowledge on the role of nutrition in integral health and quality of life that will be valuable to the scientific community and faculty and students of the different disciplines related to nutrition and health as well as for public policymakers"--