The nutritional management of healthy menu plans

Title : The nutritional management of healthy menu plans

Abstract:

Proper nutrition is fundamental for maintaining health, preventing chronic diseases, and supporting optimal physical and mental performance. The modern dietary guidelines define Daily Recommended Values (DRV) for a broad spectrum of nutrients, including macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals. The scientific research in nutrigenomics and precision nutrition highlights the crucial role of individualized dietary plans to optimize the healthspan. Despite significant advances, important knowledge gaps remain regarding long-term intervention studies and the translation of mechanistic findings into personalized clinical practice. Current studies often optimize the macronutrients DRV content and a limited set of micronutrients from different sources, without enforcing restrictions to prevent repetition of key nutrient sources or meals recipes in a pre-planified cycle of 7, 14 or 28 days. Beyond the existing software tools with AI assistance, the author goes further by trying to reach a scientific solution of optimal meals planning for the specific needs involved in mental health preservation and medical recovery. The present scientific study propose an optimised management of healthy menu plans for fully optimized, nutritionally complete, 14-day meal plans while maintaining non-repetition of nutrient sources and dishes recipes. The scientific research aims to fill this gap by developing a harmonised, comprehensive, software application for generating 30-day nutritionally complete and diverse meal plans, using global nutrient database and both linear and combinatorial optimization techniques for problem solving. Also, the using of the software programs dedicated to the calculation of the required nutritional labelling information offer, also, approximate values of the nutrition value depending on proposed mathematical algorithm, the nutriments energy coefficient, the nutrients bioavailability, the compatibility with the dishes recipes, the correct denomination of the ingredients.

Biography:

Vintila Iuliana is actually Associate Professor, PhD in Food Science and Engineering. She is author of 23 books and book chapters in international and national publishing houses (Elsevier, Wiley, Lambert, etc.), first author and co-author for 19 articles in ISI journals and relevant ISI proceedings, 113 BDI scientific papers indexed in recognized international databases, articles presented in national & international conferences and published articles revues. Also, she is member of prestigious international organization such European Federation of Food Science and Technology (2009), Co-Chair (since 2013) and Chair (since 2022) of Nutrition WG in Global Harmonization Initiative, International Society of Food Engineering (2010), Balkan Environmental Association (2008), Global Environmental Standard (GES) Community of Interest (2011), European Academy for Education and Social Research (2012). She acts as international projects Expert for European Science Foundation, Eurostar Program, EC - Expert area in the Participant Portal and Connecting Europe Facility, Horizon Europe Program, EU TAIEX, COST, EACEA, Erasmus Mundus (2010). She is Guest Associate Editor and Research Topic Editor for “Frontiers in Food Science and Technology”, Regional Editor “Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology”, Academic Editor “European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety”, Editorial Board Member SciEdTech, Editorial Board Member “African Journal of Water Conservation and Sustainability”, “EC Nutrition” Editorial Board, Editorial board “Clinical Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics”, Editorial Board “Discoveries in Food Technology and Nutrition Sciences”, etc.