Editorial Nutrition and Cardiology: An Interface not to be Ignored

Food and nutrition constitute a field of knowledge with inherent characteristics. In the first half of the twentieth century, the major objectives of the nutritional sciences consisted in discovering essential nutrients, characterizing their physiological and biochemical roles, and describing the consequences of their defficiencies1. Very frequently, the fundamental model of the study was animal growth2. However, in the past 50 years, the spread of knowledge expanded the objectives related to food and nutrition, which were inserted in an organizational complexity focused on cells, organs, organisms and communities, ranging, therefore, from molecules to populations. The challenges to understand the physiopathological mechanisms involved and to prevent and occasionally solve consequent clinical problems constitute a decisiv