Abstract:
The focus of nutritionists and diet care professionals was previously based on nutrientdeficiencies and health impairment. The advances in molecular biology have ushered in a new era of medicine and nutrition. The dieticians as well as the pharmacists are seeking opportunities to position food and nutraceuticals to promote health and prevent maladies basedon genetic makeup of the consumers. It has raised a newfangled concept of nutrient-geneinteraction which has the ability to unfold dichotomous directions in molecular nutrition. The nutrients and bioactive moieties in food could affect the gene regulation i.e. nutrigenomics orcanalsohave impactonthe variations in gene structure as a response to nutrient intake, classified as nutrigenetics. Nutrigenomics is the application of high throughput technologies for the generation, processing and interpretation of scientific information about the function, composition and the interaction of genomes with the diet intake. This has led to unprecedented challenges to the public health personnel for increasing understanding of how the nutrients modulate gene and protein expression, ultimately influencing the cellular metabolism of anindividual. This will also broaden the idea of the physiological fate of the nutrients consumedand how they affect the initiation and progression of various dietary malfunctions such asobesity, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and malignancy. Thismay also give a better in sightas to which extent the individual sensitizing genotypes are contributing to such syndromes. Hence, in the coming epochs nutrigenomics will surely lead to evidence-based dietary regimens for restoring health and well-being, thereby mitigating the occurrence of diet related dysfunctions.
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355-355
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Abstract Book on International Conference on Food and Applied Sciences (ICFAS-23) 3-5 August 23, Volume: 0, Issue: 0, Year: 2023