**Meet the editor**

Dr. Viduranga Waisundara obtained her PhD degree in Food Science and Technology from the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, in 2010. She was a lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore, from July 2009 to March 2013. Following this, she relocated to her motherland Sri Lanka and spearheaded the Functional Food Product Development Project at the Na-

tional Institute of Fundamental Studies from April 2013 to October 2016. She is currently a senior lecturer on a temporary basis, at the Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Technology, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. Dr. Waisundara is a prolific writer with many research publications and articles in newspapers and magazines to her name. She is also the current Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) Ambassador of Sri Lanka.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Diabetes 3**

Valdebenito

Vlad Cristina

**Benefits 71**

and Bobbo Khadijat

**Disease and Diabetes 33**

**Section 1 Dietary Interventions for Diabetes 1**

Viduranga Yashasvi Waisundara

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: The Need for Dietary Interventions for**

Chapter 2 **The Microbiome and the Epigenetics of Diabetes Mellitus 11**

Chapter 3 **Dietary Recommendations for Patients with Cardiovascular**

Chapter 4 **Antidiabetic and Safety Properties of Ethanolic Leaf Extract of Corchorus olitorius in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Rats 57** Arise Rotimi Olusanya, Bankole S. Ifeoluwa, Aboyewa Jumoke A.

Chapter 5 **Low-Carbohydrate High-Fat (LCHF) Diet: Evidence of Its**

Parijat De and Sagnik Mukhopadhyay

Lissé Angarita Dávila, Valmore Bermúdez Pirela, Waldo Díaz-Vasquez, Nadia Reyna Villasmil, Silvana Cisternas León, Ma Cristina Escobar Contreras, Kristian Buhring Bonacich, Samuel Durán Agüero, Paula Carrasco Vergara, Rodrigo Buhring Bonacich, Constanza Bugman, Virginia Céspedes, Marcell Gatica, Marion Guerrero Wyss, Jorge González Casanova and Francisco
