Oxidative Stress and Dietary Health: The Role of Functional Foods and Nutritional Supplements
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 39
Special Issue Editor
Interests: vascular physiology; microcirculation; endothelial function; nutrition; cardiovascular physiology; oxidative stress
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Proper nutrition plays a pivotal role in both health and developmental processes. Healthy nutrition is associated with the better health of infants, children and mothers, safer pregnancies and births, stronger immune system activity and lower probability of non-communicable chronic diseases (including diabetes and CV diseases). The global use of dietary supplements has increased. While their primary aim is to provide essential nutrients such as vitamins and minerals to maintain health, there has been a growing interest in functional ingredients in foods in recent decades. These ingredients not only provide nutrients and energy, but also offer beneficial effects for human health, enhancing specific physiological responses and potentially reducing the risk of disease. The health benefits of nutritional supplements and functional foods are observed across different age groups and many different areas of human physiology such as the cardiovascular system, cognition and neurodegenerative diseases, gastrointestinal health and cancer prevention. Oxidative stress is linked to the pathogenesis of several chronic diseases. Nutrition serves as a crucial regulator of oxidative stress in the human body, and the dietary consumption of nutrients possessing antioxidant properties can benefit human health by limiting oxidative damage.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to provide original research articles, clinical reports and review articles centered on the interplay between oxidative stress and nutrition. With the aim of providing a comprehensive overview of this topic, papers from a wide range of scientific fields, such as physiology, medicine and nutrition, are particularly encouraged.
Dr. Ivana Jukić
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional food
- diet
- dietary supplements
- nutrition
- oxidative stress
