“Good nutrition is essential to keeping current and future generations healthy across the lifespan. A healthy diet helps children grow and develop properly and reduces their risk of chronic diseases. Adults who eat a healthy diet live longer and have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers.”
–Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
New discoveries in health research happen every day, but one clear message remains consistent; optimal nutrition is imperative to human health. Research shows that an unhealthy diet is one of the major risk factors for a range of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and other conditions linked to obesity World Health Organization, 2022).
While poor nutrition can lead to life-threatening physical disease, it also can negatively contribute to secondary issues. An unhealthy diet can alter the microbiome in the gut, thereby impacting the gut-brain connection and affecting mental health and wellbeing.
Annual Reviews has curated this new review article collection that broadly explores nutrition and diet, particularly focusing on their connection to diseases such as cancer and obesity and overall health. The reviews span multiple fields of study including food science, biology, and physiology, in the following five categories:
- Food and behavior for improved health
- The microbiome and gut health
- Nutrition’s link to disease
- The business of nutrition
- The complexities of obesity
The Nutrition, Diet, and Disease collection of 23 review articles from 10 Annual Reviews journals is freely available to download and share with colleagues and students.
“Sleeping is not something that only determines whether you are tired or alert. To put it simply, sleep can save your life…Sleep is needed so everything in your body and mind can work correctly…Without proper sleep, the brain can’t regenerate properly.”
-American Sleep Association
Through evolution, sleep has remained an integral part of our daily routine. While sufficient sleep offers replenishment and rejuvenation, research shows that a chronic lack of sleep, or getting poor quality sleep, increases the risk of disorders including depression, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2022)-all creating a strain on normal brain function.
Annual Reviews has curated this new review article collection that explores varying perspectives of the complex relationship between sleep, health, and the brain. The reviews span multiple fields of study including nutrition, neuroscience, psychology, and physiology.
In this interdisciplinary collection, our experts discuss three key areas centered around sleep:
- Health and Habit
- Neuroscience and the Nervous System
- Therapy and Medicine
The Sleep, Health, and the Brain collection of 15 review articles from 10 Annual Reviews journals is freely available to download and share with colleagues and students.
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