Bromatology—All We Should Know about Food and Nutrition

Dear Colleagues,

It is estimated that over a typical human lifetime, an individual will have a dietary intake, in tonnes, as follows: fats (2.3), carbohydrates (10), proteins (2), minerals (0.6) and water (64). Additionally, on a much smaller scale, various medicines are consumed. In his article “A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians", Mark Lalonde demonstrated that around 53% of a person’s health depends on lifestyle factors, predominantly linked to diet and physical activity. Since the mid-20th century, there has been a surge in obesity cases, reaching pandemic levels. People with a body mass index in excess of 30 (classified as obese) are at greater risk of various health problems, such as type 1 and type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative conditions and cancers. This poses a serious problem not only for healthcare professionals and medical services, but also families. On the other hand, an increased pace of life together with constant exposure to an overload of information may indirectly lead to anorexia nervosa, bulimia, orthorexia and other eating disorders. Additionally, our highly processed food intake, tendency to fry and grill, and the presence of highly reactive by-products such as aldehydes result in DNA damage, which, if not correctly repaired, ultimately appears in the genome as a mutation. It has been found that a lack of physical activity together with low-quality food intake is strongly linked to the onset of colon cancer. Additionally, cachexia can appear during cancer therapy. Clearly, a holistic approach is required to address these global nutritional problems, and the significance of bromatology in a socialite context cannot be underestimated; as a science closely related to people, it can a significantly positive influence on pro-health dietary behavior.

Prof. Dr. Boleslaw Karwowski
Guest Editor

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