Meet the editor

Miljana Z. Jovandaric was born in Serbia. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1989, and completed a specialization in Pediatrics at the University Children's Hospital, Belgrade, in 1999. She completed her specialization in Neonatology in 2003. Dr. Jovandaric completed her master's thesis on "Analysis of lipid infants of women suffering from gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)" in 2006 and her

doctoral dissertation on "Effect of hypoxia on electrolyte and lipid levels in term newborns" in 2018, both at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade. She is the author and co-author of eighty-four scientific papers presented at national and international conferences and published in scientific journals. Dr. Jovandaric is currently head of the Department of Sick Newborns at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Neonatology, Clinical Centre of Serbia.

Contents

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 41**

**Chapter 5 57**

**Chapter 6 69**

**Chapter 7 89**

Health Effects of Plant Foods and the Possibility of Reducing Health Risk

Plant Proteins as Healthy, Sustainable and Integrative Meat Alternates *by Satish Kumar, Vikas Kumar, Rakesh Sharma, Anna Aleena Paul,* 

The Increase of Amines Content in the Intake of a Vegan Diet *by Cristine Vanz Borges, Hector Gomez Gomez, Igor Otavio Minatel* 

Vegetarian or Vegan Diet: Stimulating or at Risk to Mental Health?

*and Giuseppina Pace Pereira Lima*

*by Alie N.R. Meesters and Ybe Meesters*

Veganism: A New Approach to Health

*by Martina Valachovičová and Lucia Bírošová*

Breeding Vegetables for Nutritional Security

Vegetarianism and Veganism: Conflicts in Everyday Life

*by Miljana Z. Jovandaric*

*by Juliana Abonizio*

*Priyanka Suthar and Rajni Saini*

*by V. Rajasree and L. Pugalendhi*
