Functional Foods as the Prospective Therapeutic Option in Chronic Diseases. A Systemic Review

Abstract

Chronic diseases become the leading cause of more than 50% of deaths around the world. The real reason is inflammation behind all chronic diseases like chronic kidney disease, ischemic heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. There are several functional foods which involve in the management and treatment of many diseases because they provide nutrition and potential health benefits. Bioactive compounds in functional foods are responsible for all these health benefits present in them. The nutritional, physiological, and immunological properties of Nutraceutical foods promise health-promoting as well as disease-preventing potential. Natural food commodities such as whole-grain cereals, fruits and vegetables, nuts, healthy fats, low-fat dairy products, and some other nutraceutical compounds such as herbs and spices provide health benefits by promoting wellness, protecting against the diseases and their complications, slowing, or omitting the disease progression, promote healthy gut health, prevent from deficiencies, and help in to sustain the healthy lifestyle. The purpose of this systemic review was to describe the effects and outline some promising potentials of functional foods against disease prevention and treatment.