Nutrição e Obesidade – Artigo 10
Natural Products in Anti-Obesity Therapy
Obesity is regulated by genetic, endocrine, metabolic, neurological, pharmacological, environmental, and nutritional factors. The brain, gut, and adipose tissues interact with each other through metabolism-related neuropeptides, cytokines, chemokines, adipokines, and gut microbial composition. This contributes to changes in energy intake and energy expenditure. Globally, the increasing incidence of obesity is disturbing. In recent decades, obesity has been recognized as a chronic disease and a serious public health issue. It is well established ...
Nutrição e Obesidade – Artigo 9
Natural Dietary and Herbal Products in Anti-Obesity Treatment
Abstract: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is on the rise around the world. Common comorbidities associated with obesity, particularly diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease have an impact on social and financial systems. Appropriate lifestyle and behavior interventions are still the crucial cornerstone to weight loss success, but maintaining such a healthy lifestyle is extremely challenging. Abundant natural materials have been explored for their obesity treatment potential and widely used to promote the ...
Nutrição e Obesidade – Artigo 8
Low serum vitamin D-status, air pollution and obesity: A dangerous liaison
Abstract The aim of this review is to provide a general overview of the possible associations among the vitamin D status, air pollution and obesity. Sunlight exposure accounts in humans for more than 90 % of the production of vitamin D. Among emerging factors influencing sunlight-induced synthesis of vitamin D, prospective and observational studies proved that air pollution constitutes an independent risk factor in the pathogenesis of vitamin D hypovitaminosis. In addition, environmental pollutants can ...
Nutrição e Obesidade – Artigo 7
Guide for Current Nutrigenetic, Nutrigenomic, and Nutriepigenetic Approaches for Precision Nutrition Involving the Prevention and Management of Chronic Diseases Associated with Obesity
Abstract
Chronic diseases, including obesity, are major causes of morbidity and mortality in most countries. The adverse impacts of obesity and associated comorbidities on health remain a major concern due to the lack of effective interventions for prevention and management. Precision nutrition is an emerging therapeutic approach that takes into account an individual’s genetic and epigenetic ...
Nutrição e Obesidade – Artigo 6
Gene-Diet Interaction and Precision Nutrition in Obesity
Abstract: The rapid rise of obesity during the past decades has coincided with a profound shift of our living environment, including unhealthy dietary patterns, a sedentary lifestyle, and physical inactivity. Genetic predisposition to obesity may have interacted with such an obesogenic environment in determining the obesity epidemic. Growing studies have found that changes in adiposity and metabolic response to low-calorie weight loss diets might be modified by genetic variants related to obesity, metabolic status and preference ...
Nutrição e Obesidade – Artigo 5
Dietary capsaicin and its anti-obesity potency: from mechanism to clinical implications
Obesity is a growing public health problem, which has now been considered as a pandemic non-communicable disease. However, the efficacy of several approaches for weight loss is limited and variable. Thus, alternative anti-obesity treatments are urgently warranted, which should be effective, safe, and widely available. Active compounds isolated from herbs are similar with the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which has a holistic approach
that can target to several organs and tissues in the ...
Nutrição e Obesidade – Artigo 4
Diet, Microbiota, Obesity, and NAFLD: A Dangerous Quartet
Abstract: Recently, the importance of the gut-liver-adipose tissue axis has become evident. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the hepatic disease of a systemic metabolic disorder that radiates from energy-surplus induced adiposopathy. The gut microbiota has tremendous influences in our whole-body metabolism, and is crucial for our well-being and health. Microorganisms precede humans in more than 400 million years and our guest flora evolved with us in order to help us face aggressor microorganisms, to help us ...
Nutrição e Obesidade – Artigo 3
Blaming the brain for obesity: Integration of hedonic and homeostatic mechanisms
Abstract
The brain plays a key role in the controls of energy intake and expenditure and many genes associated with obesity are expressed in the central nervous system. Technological and conceptual advances in both basic and clinical neurosciences have expanded the traditional view of homeostatic regulation of body weight by mainly the hypothalamus to include hedonic controls of appetite by cortical and subcortical brain areas processing external sensory information, reward, cognition, and executive ...
