International Journal of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Special Issue

Health and Nutrition: Challenges and Perspectives

  • Submission Deadline: Apr. 10, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Rebeca Rocha Almeida
About This Special Issue
The science covers diferents areas of knowledge, being the nutrition recognized as an interdisciplinary and multifaceted field due to the various biological effects of the food components. It is essential to have an integrative view of the food, not only by the chemical aspect, for example, the influence of the processing and industrialization of the food over the biodisponibility of the nutritional compents, but also consider the humanistic aspect of the food, in its whole complexity, since the cultural aspects to the social, ideologic, religious, comportamental, economic and agronomic. All of these aspects are inside the expanded domain of the nutrition, and contribute to the determination of the process which the food and nutrients are brought to the individual´s table (Navia et al., 1995; Lobo, 2018).
The food constitute a primordial factor on the society routine, not just because of the human physiological needs, but especially, due to its aquisition became a public health problem, once the excess or the lack of it can lead to the development of diseases (Abreu et al., 2001).
According with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the food and nutrition are basics requeriments to the promotion of health, enabling the full affirmation of the potential of human growth and development with quality of life and citizenship. Thus, the challenges found to a population reach a suitable level of food and nutrition are countless. The complexity of food problems, such as the transition from the nutritional status of the population from malnutrition to obesity, is due to the nutritional transition, a phenomenon characterized by changes in the dietary pattern of a population (Castro, 2015).
Nowdays, populations suffer from multiple ways of undernutrition. The malnutrition still the most important cause of child mortality and it is estimated that more than two billions of people has micronutrient deficiency (WHO, 2014). At the same time, on the otherside of the food and nutritional insecurity , are the overweight and obesity, that have been growing globally. The overweight and obesity, beyond being a public health problem, represent a risk factors to the development of chronic diseases, representing a social, economic and health burden to the countries (Coutinho et al., 2015).
Thus, the greatest perspectives are directed towards the advance on actions of regulatory character about diferents elements of the food system, for example, regulation of advertisements, publicity and food labeling and regulation of the composition of ultraprocessed products. Simultaneously there´s a paradigm of the security and food insecurity whose are connected and associated with theories of ecological unsustainability of the planet (Vasconcelos, 2010; Castro, 2015).
However we´re living the growth of research with bioactive compounds, genetic polymorphism, epigenetic mechanisms, molecular targets, functional properties of the food and their possible applications in health and clinical practice. Besides that there´s the evolution and advances in software development and artificial intelligece with application on the nutrition science (Reis et al., 2018).

Aims and Scope:

  1. Obesity
  2. Chronic disease
  3. Immunology
  4. Nutritional status
  5. Food Technology
  6. Nutritional Sciences
  7. Food
  8. Diet
Lead Guest Editor
  • Rebeca Rocha Almeida

    Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil

Guest Editors
  • Larissa Monteiro Costa Pereira

    University Estácio of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil

  • Victor Batista Oliveira

    Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil

  • Flávia Ferreira Fontenele

    Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil

  • Heloísa Monteiro

    Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil

  • Márcia Ferreira Cândido de Souza

    Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil

  • Jéssica Araujo

    Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil

  • Aliona Tihon

    Department of General Hygiene, “Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova

Published Articles
  • Multidimensional Poverty and Acute Malnutrition of Children in Households of Mayo-danay Division, Cameroon

    Martin Sobze Sanou , Andre Izacar Gael Bita , Ghyslaine Bruna Djeunang Dongho , Benjamin Azike Chunkukundun , Armand Tiotsa Tsapi , Isidore Sieleunou , Germaine Sylvie Nkengfack Nembongwe

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2020
    Pages: 25-32
    Received: Oct. 22, 2019
    Accepted: Dec. 08, 2019
    Published: Apr. 13, 2020
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijnfs.20200901.15
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    Abstract: Introduction: The SMART survey (2017) in the Far North region, Cameroon presents high prevalence of malnutrition: 4.5% of global acute malnutrition (GAM) and 40.9% of chronic malnutrition (CM). Objectives: To examine the relationship between multidimensional poverty and malnutrition among children under-five in the Mayo-Danay Division. Specifically... Show More