The Role of Dietary Antioxidants in Obesity
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Obesity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 258
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Interests: inflammation; signaling pathways; colorectal cancer; multimorbidity; inmunologic disoders; chronic patients
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Dear Colleagues,
Obesity is the epidemic of the 21st century; it has become a global public health crisis. In developing countries, the prevalence of obesity continues to rise. Obesity is a multifactorial disease in which genetic, psychological, and environmental causative factors are implicated, as well as physical inactivity and dietary factors and food habits lodging a predominant place. Obesity is associated with the risk of suffering from diabetes, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, sleep apnea, cardiovascular problems, among others.
Obesity may induce systemic oxidative stress, and increased oxidative stress in accumulated fat is, at least in part, the essential cause of the dysregulation of adipocytokines and the development of metabolic syndrome. Several mechanisms are involved in generating oxidative stress in obesity, but essentially it is caused by an imbalance between the production of free radicals and the body's antioxidant responsible for the detoxification of these radicals. Moreover, oxidative stress and pro-inflammatory processes, which seem to represent a link between obesity and other comorbidities, are strongly related.
Then, oxidative stress in accumulated fat should be an important target for the development of new treatments. In this regard, dietary antioxidants could play a relevant role in reversing oxidative stress associated with obesity contributing to improving the health of obese people. Moreover, healthy eating habits could prevent or delay metabolic syndrome by adding antioxidant-rich foods into one’s diet.
Prof. Dr. Susana Sánchez-Fidalgo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- obesity
- overweight
- oxidative stress
- dietary antioxidant
- antioxidant-rich foods
