Title : Role of functional foods to combat lifestyle disorders
Abstract:
The human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) harbours the most abundant number and varieties of microbes called the microbiome. It consists of good and bad bacteria in balanced ratios (eubiosis). However, in today’s fast-paced life, several factors like lack of sleep and exercise, consumption of processed and sugary foods, stress, and most importantly bad food choices leads to imbalanced flora, called dysbiosis. Dysbiosis has been associated with several life-style related disorders like diabetes, hypertension, cancer, etc. To combat these lifestyle disorders functional foods like probiotics, prebiotics have been very crucial. They are known to selectively promote the probiotics This presentation throws light on the mechanisms involved in the different health benefits imparted by functional foods consumption on human health.
