Nutrition, Food and Diet in Ageing and Longevity

This edited volume is a compilation of 30 articles discussing what constitutes food for health and longevity. The aim is to provide up—to—date information, insights, and future tendencies in the ongoing scientific research about nutritional components, food habits and dietary patterns in different cultures. The health—sustaining and health—promoting effects of food are certainly founded in its overall composition of macronutrients and micronutrients. However, the consumption of these nutrie...