Full Description
Achieving integral health is a challenge that necessitates a diversified approach from different disciplines to achieve a coordinated impact on people's health. Food and nutrition form an essential part of this approach. This new book explores some important advances in the role of nutrition in integral health and quality of life, laying special emphasis on the challenges that humans face in this era of sedentary lifestyles, diseases associated with food consumption, and social, economic, environmental, and cultural crises. 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 book also offers an analysis 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 role of genetics and epigenetics in obesity, and more. The impact of nutrition on oral and dental health is also addressed in the book.
Contents
PART I: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO NUTRITION: STUDIES AND REFLECTIONS 1. Parental Influence on Children's Food Consumption 2. Nutrition in Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases 3. Diet Self-Regulation Behavior as a Protective Factor for Health in Women Adolescents 4. Impact of Nutritional Status on the Health of Older Adults 5. Nutritional Profile of Fermented Foods and Their Health Benefits 6. Microstructured Particles as Bioactive Compound Carriers for Health, Nutrition, and Quality of Life: A Case Study of Fish Burgers 7. Nutritional and Multi-Therapeutic Traits of Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) to Enhance Human Health 8. Malnutrition Status of School-Aged Children in Rural Areas of Mexico 9. A Low FODMAP Diet: An Integrative Approach to Cure Gastrointestinal Disorders PART II: ANALYSIS OF OBESITY AND ITS DIMENSIONS 10. Hyperlipidemia/Obesity Crisis: Healthy Food and Lifestyle Changes to Tackle Obesity 11. Childhood Obesity Risks and Challenges in Promoting School Health 12. Globesity: The Socio-Economic Dimensions of the Problem 13. Obesity, Mental Health, and Quality of Life in Elderly People 14. The Role of Genetics and Epigenetics in Obesity PART III: DENTAL/ORAL HEALTH 15. Relationship Between Oral Health with Nutrition during Pregnancy, Nursing, and the First Two Years of Life 16. Oral Health and Nutrition: A Bidirectional Relationship 17. Oral Health, Nutrition, and Quality of Life PART IV: QUALITY OF LIFE AND HEALTH 18. The Incidence of Educational Institutions in the Integral Health of Students 19. Quality of Life in Adult Patients with Diabetes 20. Self-Care: Behavior Before Diseases 21. Quality of Life During Menopause in Latin Women 22. Impact on the Physical and Emotional Health of the Informal Caregiver of Patients with Dementia 23. Sources and Topics of Health Information for Self-Care in Diabetic Men from Saltillo, Mexico
