title: Nutrigenomics/Nutrigenetics.
abstract: Since Hippocrates it is known that nutrition plays a very important role in maintaining health, people being advised to consider "food intake as a real medicine". Modern science shows that important and necessary for an optimal state of health is not only the intake of some specific nutrients, but, above all, specific quantities of each and every nutrient which are to be taken. New notions have consequently appeared, such as dietetic recommendations and nutritional epidemiology. At the same time, it has been emphasized that nutrition can directly contribute to diseases appearance (nutrients/food generally interact with the genes in a "benign" way, but in some circumstances this interaction can also have fatal consequences). Human development is influenced by both environmental factors (diet, smoking, education, physical activity etc.) and heredity; both factors should be given equal attention, if our aim is to maintain the state of health. Experimental studies are often dedicated either only to the influence of environmental factors or exclusively to genes' influence and not to both simultaneously [4]. Modern techniques and methods of study are designed to solve the problem.
authors.affiliation: Clinical County Emergency Hospital Craiova, Clinic of Diabetes Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases.
authors.forename: Nicoleta
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mitroi
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moţa
mesh_terms: D019175:DNA Methylation; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications; D004032:Diet; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D015894:Genome, Human; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D054647:Nutrigenomics; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena / Q000235:genetics; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012307:Risk Factors; D014158:Transcription, Genetic