Meet the editors

Gyula Mózsik, MD PhD, ScD (Med), is an emeritus professor of medicine at the First Department of Medicine, University of Pécs, Hungary. He was the head of the department from 1993 to 2003. His specializations are medicine, gastroenterology, clinical pharmacology, and clinical nutrition (dietetics). His research fields are biochemical and molecular pharmacological studies in the gastrointestinal tract, clinical pharmacological, and clinical

nutritional (dietary) research in new drug production and food production. He has published around 360 peer-reviewed papers, 196 book chapters, 692 abstracts, 19 monographs, and 33 edited books. He organized 38 national and international (in Croatia, France, Romania, Italy, USA, and Japan) congresses/symposiums. He received the Andre Robert Award from the International Union of Pharmacology, Gastrointestinal Section (GI Section, 2014). Fourteen of his students have been appointed as full professors in Cuba, Egypt, and Hungary.

Prof. Mária Figler, MD, PhD, med habil, studied medical sciences at the Medical University of Pécs, and graduated in 1975. She specialized in internal medicine and has had a postgraduate degree since 1980. Furthermore, she also specialized in gastroenterology in Hajnal Imre University of Health Sciences and has worked as a gastroenterologist since 1998.

She has been working at the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Pécs since 1975 and from 1980 she worked part time as Head of the Department of Gastroenterology. Furthermore, she also works part time at the

University of Pécs in the Faculty of Health Sciences in the Institute of Dietetics and Nutritional Science. She is also vice dean for research and quality management. She is editor of 17 publications on the theme of fundamentals of nutritional science and clinical dietetics.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

and Traditional Diet

*by João Silva Dias*

*by Gyula Mózsik and Mária Figler*

Subjects: Rural South African Context

Cardiovascular Disease and Nutrition

*by Hanan Al-Khalaifah and Afaf Al-Nasser*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3** Introductory Chapter: General Nutritional Problems in the Different Countries

Total and Partial Starvation **9**

**Chapter 2 11** Health Status and Permanent Loss to Follow up of Ellisras Longitudinal Study

Nutrition and Different Diseases **27**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 59**

**Chapter 6 83**

*by Javier Marhuenda, Débora Villaño, Begoña Cerdá and María Pilar Zafrilla*

Role of Poultry Research in Increasing Consumption of PUFA in Humans

Antidiabetic Potential of Plants Used in Bulgarian Folk Medicine

*by Milka Nashar, Yoana D. Kiselova-Kaneva and Diana G. Ivanova*

Nutritional Quality and Effect on Disease Prevention of Vegetables

*by Monyeki K. Daniel, Siweya H. James, Kemper C.G. Han and Ramoshaba N. Elfas*

of the Four Continents - Our Challenges Now and Forthcoming Time

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Preface

The association between food in health and disease and our challenges now and in the future is very wide; however, it is a very close association in terms of basic health, population nutrition, healthy lifestyle, disease, and many other points (including clinical nutritional, dietetic research, food qualification systems, and

This book considers all of the above factors (notes); however, the editors have tried to provide a cross-section of different positions from countries in four continents

The chapters cover the nutritional aspects of the studied field and together will give an excellent analysis of the principles of today's human nutrition problems

The tables and figures will offer detailed and important scientific information for

The book offers important information to epidemiologists, statistical experts, politicians, sociologists, geneticists, botanists, government representatives, clinical nutrition experts, food industrial experts, agricultural experts, physicians, medical students, politologists, food marketing researchers, chemists, bacteriologists, and

The editors thank the excellent cooperation of the contributors during the

The editors are also especially thankful for the excellent support given by Mr. Luka Cvjetkovic, the Author Service Manager from IntechOpen Access Publishers.

**Gyula Mozsik and Maria Figler**

University of Pécs,

Hungary

(Africa, Asia, Europe, and America) by presenting 13 chapters.

(starvation, normal nutrition, obesity) all over the world.

experts responsible for human life in the forthcoming decades.

innovative nutritional research).

readers.

preparation of this book.
