Areas of Publications
Food Allergy
Food allergy is an immune system reaction that occurs soon after eating a certain food. Even a tiny amount of the allergy-causing food can trigger signs and symptoms such as digestive problems, hives, or swollen airways. Allergies occur when your immune system reacts to a foreign substance. The most common food allergy-causing foods are peanuts, milk, eggs, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy, and wheat. In other words, it is food's abnormal responses to harmful foods. A food allergy is also known as food hypersensitivity.
Public Health Nutrition provides the understanding and causes of, and approaches and solutions to, nutrition-related public health achievements, situations, and problems around the world. Public Health Nutrition focuses on the promotion of good health through nutrition and the primary prevention of nutrition-related illness in the population. Public health nutrition is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the medium of nutrition. The aim of those working as public health nutritionists is for everyone to achieve greater health and well-being by making healthier food and nutrition-related choices.
Food Chemistry
The interactions and chemical process between the biological and non-biological components of food is known as food chemistry. Some of the biological components include meat, poultry, beer, and milk. It includes carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins in biochemistry. A specialized phase of food technology is concerned with an understanding of the fundamental changes of the composition and the physical condition of foodstuffs which may occur during and subsequent to industrial processing.
Food Science
Food Science is the study of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of food. Food Science includes food processing and food technology. Microbiology, chemical engineering, and biochemistry are the disciplines that come under food science.
Food and Nutrition
Nutrition is the process to consume food for the health and growth of the body. This body maintains itself by transforming food into energy and body tissues. Food provides essential substance which is called nutrients. The body utilizes these nutrients for the repair and maintenance of tissues and to keep its different systems working smoothly.
Nutritional biochemistry
Nutritional biochemistry is the study of nutrition as a science that deals with physiology, medicine, microbiology, pharmacology, chemistry, and biology and uses these sciences for the study of health, diet, nutrition, disease, and drug treatment. Nutritional biochemical therapy saves lives, reduces morbidity, improves health outcomes, and reduces healthcare costs and patients.
Food Microbiology
Food Microbiology is the science that deals with the microorganisms involved in the spoilage, contamination, and preservation of food. Food microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which have both beneficial and deleterious effects on the quality, and safety of raw and processed meat, poultry, and egg products. It focuses on the general biology of the microorganisms that are found in foods.
Nutritional Disorders
Nutritional Disorder is the disorder caused by an insufficient intake of food or of certain nutrients, by an inability of the body to absorb and use nutrients, or by overconsumption of certain foods. In other words, a Nutritional Disorder is a nutritional imbalance that is due to either overnutrition or undernutrition. It may cause by the presence of a toxin in the diet.
Eating Disorder
Eating Disorder is one of the psychological disorders which are caused by serious disturbances of eating behavior. It can have life-threatening consequences for humans. It includes Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa, Binge eating. It involves either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual's physical and mental health. Eating disorders can harm the heart, digestive system, bones, teeth, and mouth, and lead to other diseases.
Nutraceuticals
Nutraceuticals are food, or parts of food, that provide medical or health benefits, including the prevention and treatment of disease. It includes Dietary Supplements including botanicals, Functional Foods, and Medicinal Foods. Nutraceuticals may be a naturally nutrient-rich or medicinally active food or it may be a specific component of a food, such as the omega-3 fish oil that can be derived from salmon and other cold-water fish.
Diet Therapy
Diet therapy is the branch of dietetics concerned with the use of foods for therapeutic purposes. It is a method of eating prescribed by a physician to improve health. Diet therapy usually involves the modification of an existing dietary lifestyle to promote optimum health. Therapeutic diets are modified for nutrients, texture, and food allergies or food intolerances.
Food Processing and Preservation
Food preservation includes preventing the growth of bacteria, fungi, or other micro-organisms as well as retarding the oxidation of fats that cause rancidity thus promoting longer shelf life and reducing hazards from eating the food. Food processing is the transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food, or of food into other forms.
Food Safety & Quality Control
Food safety describes handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. Food safety is defined as the assurance that the food will not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared and/or eaten according to its intended use. It includes the origins of food practices relating to food labeling, food hygiene, food additives, and pesticide residues.
Food Hygiene
Food hygiene is the preservation and preparation of foods in a manner that ensures the food is safe for human consumption. Food Hygiene is the conditions and practices that preserve the quality of food to prevent contamination and foodborne illnesses. Properly handling and preparing food greatly reduces the risks of getting foodborne illnesses.
Food Additives
Food additives are substances added to food to enhance its flavor or appearance or to preserve it. Food additives also have some nutritive value these may be salt, monosodium glutamate, or citric acid, used in the commercial processing of food as preservatives, antioxidants, emulsifiers, etc. Food additives afford the convenience and enjoyment of a wide variety of appetizing, nutritious, fresh, and palatable foods.
Clinical nutrition Malnutrition
The nutrition of patients in health care is called clinical nutrition. Malnutrition is the unhealthy condition that results from not eating enough food or not eating enough healthy food: poor nutrition. Clinical malnutrition causes are Cachexia caused by diseases, injuries, and difficulties with ingestion, such as stroke, paresis, dementia, depression, and dysphagia.
Nutrition & Metabolism Disorders
Nutrition consists of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. These substances are broken down by enzymes in your digestive system and then carried to the cells where they can be used as fuel to keep their different systems working smoothly. Metabolism is the chemical process your body uses to transform the food you eat into the fuel that keeps you alive. A metabolic disorder occurs when abnormal chemical reactions in your body disrupt this process.
Nutritional Deficiencies
Nutritional Deficiencies is an inadequate supply of essential nutrients in the diet which results in malnutrition or disease. Nutritional deficiencies can lead to a variety of health problems, such as problems of digestion, skin problems, stunted or defective bone growth, and even dementia.
Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder characterized by an unrealistic fear of weight gain, self-starvation, and conspicuous distortion of body image. Key features for Anorexia Nervosa are refusal to maintain healthy body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorted body image. Inadequate eating or excessive exercising results in severe weight loss.
Nutritional Supplements
A nutritional supplement is to provide nutrients that are not consumed in sufficient quantities. Supplements include vitamins, minerals, fiber, fatty acids, and amino acids, among other substances.
Pediatric Nutrition
Pediatric nutrition is the maintenance of a proper well-balanced diet consisting of the essential nutrients and the adequate caloric intake necessary to promote growth and sustain the physiologic requirements at the various stages of a child's development. Pediatric nutrition includes the nutritional needs of infants, children, and adolescents. Nutritional supplements are added to the diet to boost overall health and energy, to provide immune system support and reduce the risks of illness and age-related conditions, to improve performance in athletic and mental activities, and to support the healing process during illness and disease.
Athletes’ physical health is essential for being in the race of competition. Sports science comprises of athletes' physical fitness, prevention of sport and exercise injuries, treatment of injuries, physical therapy and performance-enhancing drugs, and also the trauma of athletes.
Performance Enhancement
Performance enhancement is crucial for athletes to improve their competitive drive. Performance enhancement may be linked to productivity, identity, social capital, or pleasure, while health is envisaged broadly as the absence of disease, optimal functioning, and community well-being. The performance of an athlete is influenced by a combination of physiological, psychological, and socio-cultural factors. Performance can be enhanced by various factors such as proper sleep and rest, good nutrition, periodization, warm-down, stretching, massage, hydrotherapy, compression garments, relaxation techniques, and also travel strategies. The goal of sports performance is to enhance athletes' performance in competition for success. It differs from personal training in which the primary goal is usually to improve overall fitness.
Sports Medicine
Athletes’ physical health is essential for being in the race of competition. Sports Medicine fills the gap between science and practice in the promotion of exercise and health, and in the scientific assessment, study, and understanding of sports performance. Sports medicine focuses on sports injury prevention and treatment, exercise for health, drugs in sport, and recommendations for training and nutrition. Sports medicine is a good reference source for physicians, sports medicine specialists, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, team doctors, and trainers. Asian Journal of Food Nutrition & Athletic Enhancement focuses on the topics that include sporting events, aspects of the enhancement process, use of performance-enhancing substances, psychological and physical health of the athlete, rehabilitate injuries related to sport or recreational activity, athletic physiology, and nutrition of athletes.
Athletic Training
Athletes can injure themselves when playing sports or doing exercise. Athletic training includes prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries, strength training, and specific conditioning. Rehabilitation aims to restore the injured to normal function by gradual exercise movements. Athletic training is practiced by athletic trainers, health care professionals. Athletic training also encompasses the intervention of emergency, acute and chronic medical conditions involving impairment, functional limitations, and disabilities. Certified athletic trainers or health professionals train athletes in preventing, recognizing, managing, and rehabilitating injuries that result from physical activity. Many athletic trainers work in educational settings, such as colleges or universities. Others work in physicians' offices or for professional sports teams. Exercise physiologists work in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and university laboratories
Sports Psychology and Physical Health
In sports, athletes may undergo stress by which athletes react physically and mentally that can negatively affect their performance abilities. It involves the psychological factors that affect performance and how participation in sport and exercise affect psychological and physical factors vice versa. In short, it can be described as the study of how psychology influences sports, athletic performance, exercise, and physical activity. Today, sports psychology is a diverse field. It aids to understand psychological factors that influence participation and performance in sport and exercise. Sports psychology, a diverse field presents the athlete's psychological and physical factors that affect performance in sports-related events. In brief, it can be stated as the study of how psychology influences sports, athletic performance, exercise, and physical activity.
Sports Injuries
Sports injuries require special focus on the identification of injuries, care, prevention and treatment, therapies for injury management. The most common sports injuries are ligament sprains and muscle strains, knee injuries, swollen muscles, Achilles tendon injuries, pain along the shin bone, rotator cuff injuries, fractures and bone dislocations, etc. Athletic injury management focuses on the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries. It guides to the management of the care of athletic injuries, identification, and assessment of injuries, therapies for injury management, and interaction with players, parents, and physicians. Athletic injury management is to provide persons involved in sport and recreation activities with an opportunity to increase theoretical and practical knowledge in the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries.
Biomechanics
Sports biomechanics is the study that is concerned with optimizing sports techniques. The biomechanical analysis compares and contrasts an athlete's present technique. It studies the structure and function of biological systems. The motto of sports biomechanics is to evaluate the motion of humans in sports training, ergonomics, and the design of equipment. It is a discipline that applies the laws of mechanics to study body movements and their causes. It also helps in gaining a greater understanding of performance in athletic events through modeling and measurement. Biomechanics emerged from physical education as a specialized area of study. Kinesiology and biomechanics are intricately related. Principles of these two fields can be applied to the fields of biology, physiology, engineering, physical and occupational therapy, and medicine as well. Biomechanics offer scientific knowledge that can improve performance, improve sports techniques, equipment, and safety, design and conduct programs to enhance individual movement skills.
Sports Nutrition, Eating habits of athletes
Athletes can achieve peak performance by proper training and taking nutritious food supplements. Sports nutrition enables one to learn about fundamental concepts of nutrition to improve athletic performance. Nutrition can help enhance athletic performance. This study enables us to learn about fundamental concepts of nutrition, and how those concepts can be utilized to improve athletic performance. Nutrition plays a major role in sport-related activities as eating a good diet provides energy. The diet should contain Calories, Carbohydrates, Fluids, Iron, vitamins, other minerals, proteins, etc. Becoming an elite athlete requires good genes, good training and conditioning, and a sensible diet.
Athletic Enhancement Studies
Athletic research relates to the current challenges, key solutions, development, and clinical health of active athletes for optimizing health and human performance. Athletic research journals aim in publishing current aspects of the unaddressed sports scientific requirements of athletes and researchers. The sports world is constantly evolving, and with that enhancement in sports must evolve. An athlete is a person possessing the natural or acquired traits, such as strength, agility, and endurance necessary for physical exercise or sports, especially performing at competitive levels. Athletics include activities, such as sports, exercises, and games and require physical skill and stamina. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of races and competitions which combine athletes performances for a team score. Athletes, despite their ages, abilities rely on performance enhancement to improve their skills. Athletes need to be trained well on strength, conditioning, injuries, rehabilitation, specific sport-skill, eating strategies to fuel performance, enhancement therapies, etc.