Nutrition and Human Health (eBook)

This book brings together innovative research that examines respectively climate change, agricultural production, environmental impacts, food security, nutrition and human health issues with regard to international policies as well as sustainable development goals.  

As sustainability continues to be a high concern in the scholarly community, food security has become a critical worldwide topic. Food supplies are challenged by factors such as toxicity, substandard food processes, difficulties in providing food to struggling populations and changes to the environment due to climate change egislation can protect public health, but law-makers must understand the current complications facing food security today. This book features a broad range of topics including ecotoxicology, smart food, and wastewater reuse impacts.

The book aims to look at how we can protect and improve the health of vulnerable populations as well as innovative solutions to food insecurity. It is ideally designed for university students, from undergraduate to Ph.D. level, professors, researchers, professionals, environmentalists, physio-pathologists, medical doctors, epidemiologists, policies makers and sociologists.

Hicham Chatoui was born in Beni Mellal (Tagzirt), Morocco, in 1984. He is PhD in neurosciences & physiology, laboratory of environment, neurosciences and pharmacology at the Faculty of Sciences Semlalia of Marrakech and the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Beni Mellal. He obtained a master's degree in life sciences and health, option: Anthropobiology. He has been teaching since 2009.

He has published numerous articles and chapters in international journals. He has organized and coordinated several international scientific conferences and congresses. His current research focuses on neurobehavioral and neurophysiological effects of water stress, neuro-immunology, immunology, neurotoxicity, neurotransmitters, behavior (anxiety, locomotor activity, motivation, biomedical engineering, health engineering, nutrition, food safety, environment and climate change.

His current research focuses on the Marine Biology, Aquaculture, Biostatistical-Biomathematical Modeling in Ecotoxicology, Epidemiology and Climate Change.

Hanane Moummou is Professor in the Department of Health and Agro-Industry Engineering and Innovation at Private University of Marrakech, Morocco since 2016. She received her France and Morocco co-directed Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with an emphasis on fruits Genomic and Biotechnology from the University of Caddy Ayyad-Morocco and the University of Paul Sabatier of Toulouse-France. The M.S. degree in water and Environment with an emphasis in automatic analysis and control of water and bio-environmental systems from Caddi ayyad university, Morocco. The Bachelor's degree in food technology from Caddy ayyad university-Marrakech, Morocco. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of biotechnology and bioprocess engineering, the effects of agricultural practices on productivity, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Climate change effects, Food safety and Genomics.

Specifically, her research focuses on the following areas: food safety, nurition in disease prevention, Genomic and diversification patterns, biochemical characterisation of plant, enzyms contribution to flavour synthesis in fruits, phytohormones and bioinformatics.

Dr. MOUMMOU has published papers in scientific journals such as BMC Plant Biology-Springer, Journal of Plant Physiology-Elsevier and Current Topics in Plant Biology.

Her research work was carried out in different countries at the following laboratories: Fruit Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory-Toulouse- France, Food Sciences FSSM-Marrakech-Morocco, Max Planck Institute, Germany and Krolinska Institute-Centre for Molecular Medicine-Stockholm, Sweden.

Mounir Tilaoui received his Ph.D in Pharmacology-Biochemistry from the Faculty of Science and Technology of Beni Mellal in July 2012. His thesis projects were focused on the antitumor activity of natural product: chemical, cellular and molecular analysis. After completion of his degree he was appointed as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of chemical and life sciences, at the Waterford Institute of Technology. Ireland. His research focused on studying the effects of chemopreventive agents on activation of the intrinsic apoptotic pathway in cancer. He then continued at the Sultan Moulay Slimane University another postdoctoral researcher focused on natural product-based anticancer drug discovery / gene expression profiles for triple-negative breast cancer in Moroccan population. In the autumn of 2018 Dr. Tilaoui joined the Private University of Marrakesh and was appointed as a faculty member. His current work is mainly focused on the anticancer drug discovery.

Nabila Saadaoui associate professor at the Private University of Marrakesh (UPM) since 2018. She was born in Sale city, Morocco. She held a PhD in Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, from Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech in 2014. She cumulate more than 10 years' experience in research as well as 5 years in teaching in waste management, wastewater treatment and products recycling in agro-food industry. Professor SAADAOUI published numerous articles and held 3 patents, in addition to several scientific presentations at international conferences. She has been a substitute professor at Cadi Ayyad University. She was one of Sustainable Development Goals talent to attend Unleash Innovation lab 2017.

Her major interest of current research is focused on bioprocessing of wastes, environmental management and production of valuable bioactive compounds through biotechnologies.

Amina Brhich was born in Larache, Morocco, in 1986. She is PhD Student in Ecotoxicology & Medical Toxicology, laboratory of Biological Engineering, FSTBM, USMS, Morocco. She obtained a master's degree in Applied Immuno-Virology and Microbiology, FSTM, UNIVH2MC, Morocco. She was a teacher researcher from 2015 to 2020 at the Private University of Marrakech (UPM).

Her current research interests focus on the toxicological effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees, energetic biomarkers, neurotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, behavior, immunology, food security and environment.