Micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) have tremendous health benefits and play a vital role in regulating body functions, immune system maintenance, energy production, and blood clotting. Micronutrient deficiency is the main nutritional problem impacting the human population globally leading to serious health consequences. Inadequate dietary practices with reliance on single-source instead of including a variety of foods is another contributing factor to nutritional imbalance and ultimately to nutritional deficiencies. The deficiency in essential micronutrients can be the leading cause of lifelong diseases, delayed growth, fatigue, and decreased immunity. Therefore, the need arises for an integrated approach to overcome these deficiencies to guarantee the optimal health of susceptible individuals. Nutritional interventions comprising food supplementation, fortification, and diet diversification can serve this purpose at a large scale.
This Research Topic highlights the significance of micronutrient and nutritional interventions to tackle micronutrient deficiency. Modern diets are made of irregular and unbalanced meals, which are not only deficient in calories and certain nutrients but also increase the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer. Keeping in view the continuously evolving lifestyle, consumers are becoming more conscious and focused on their health and wellbeing, which necessitates innovations and targeted nutritional interventions. While many different solutions exist for assisting consumers to eat balanced diets and sustain their health by reducing these risks, various nutritional interventions can allow them to better understand their own personal nutritional requirements and reverse NCDs and ailments altogether.
We welcome authors to contribute to this research topic by submitting their articles but are not limited to the following subjects:
1) Food fortification including the addition of micronutrients to staple foods during processing enabling consumers to achieve the recommended level of micronutrients
2) Diet diversification ensuring an adequate and balanced combination of nutrients (micronutrients, macronutrients, and food-based substances) through the dissemination of information among the general public about healthy food choices and my plate concept.
3) Food supplementation to target large doses of micronutrient deficiencies for target individuals like iron for lactating and pregnant women through supplementary feeding.
Micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) have tremendous health benefits and play a vital role in regulating body functions, immune system maintenance, energy production, and blood clotting. Micronutrient deficiency is the main nutritional problem impacting the human population globally leading to serious health consequences. Inadequate dietary practices with reliance on single-source instead of including a variety of foods is another contributing factor to nutritional imbalance and ultimately to nutritional deficiencies. The deficiency in essential micronutrients can be the leading cause of lifelong diseases, delayed growth, fatigue, and decreased immunity. Therefore, the need arises for an integrated approach to overcome these deficiencies to guarantee the optimal health of susceptible individuals. Nutritional interventions comprising food supplementation, fortification, and diet diversification can serve this purpose at a large scale.
This Research Topic highlights the significance of micronutrient and nutritional interventions to tackle micronutrient deficiency. Modern diets are made of irregular and unbalanced meals, which are not only deficient in calories and certain nutrients but also increase the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer. Keeping in view the continuously evolving lifestyle, consumers are becoming more conscious and focused on their health and wellbeing, which necessitates innovations and targeted nutritional interventions. While many different solutions exist for assisting consumers to eat balanced diets and sustain their health by reducing these risks, various nutritional interventions can allow them to better understand their own personal nutritional requirements and reverse NCDs and ailments altogether.
We welcome authors to contribute to this research topic by submitting their articles but are not limited to the following subjects:
1) Food fortification including the addition of micronutrients to staple foods during processing enabling consumers to achieve the recommended level of micronutrients
2) Diet diversification ensuring an adequate and balanced combination of nutrients (micronutrients, macronutrients, and food-based substances) through the dissemination of information among the general public about healthy food choices and my plate concept.
3) Food supplementation to target large doses of micronutrient deficiencies for target individuals like iron for lactating and pregnant women through supplementary feeding.
