The fascinating area of Nutrigenomics describes this daily
communication between our diet and our genome. This book describes how
nutrition shapes human evolution and demonstrates its consequences for
our susceptibility to diseases, such as diabetes and atherosclerosis.
Inappropriate diet can yield stress for our cells, tissues and organs
and then it is often associated with low-grade chronic inflammation.
Overnutrition paired with physical inactivity leads to overweight and
obesity and results in increased burden for a body that originally was
adapted for a life in the savannahs of East Africa. Therefore, this
textbook does not discuss a theoretical topic in science, but it talks
about real life and our life-long "chat" with diet. We are all food
consumers, thus each of us is concerned by the topic of this book and
should be aware of its mechanisms.
The purpose of this book is to provide an overview on the principles of
nutrigenomics and their relation to health or disease. The content of
this book is based on the lecture course "Nutrigenomics", which is held
since 2003 once per year by Prof. Carlberg at the University of Eastern
Finland in Kuopio. The book represents an updated but simplified version
of our textbook "Nutrigenomics" (ISBN 978-3-319-30413-7). Besides its
value as a textbook, "Nutrigenomics: how science works" will be a
useful reference for individuals working in biomedicine
