Editorial: Today's Nutrition and Tomorrow's Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities

Scientific research in the field of nutrition and health has made great strides in recent years. Food-related investigations cover a broad range of topics in close relation with many other health-oriented disciplines. This E-book elaborates on the relevance of putting diet and food habits at the heart of strategies aiming to improve the global health status of the general public, and on the need of appropriate methodological approaches to conduct meaningful and reliable public healthand economic outcome evaluations. An emerging issue in the field of nutrition is the important role of our food on physiological homeostasis and resilience of the human body, as highlighted by Tremblay et al. The authors shed a new light on the obesity issue by addressing various functionalities of the adipose tissue, looking beyond its traditional function of excess energy storage. The multifactorial interplay between biological, environmental, and socioeconomic determinants may provide a plausible explanation of the obesity epidemics. The documented examples include: