Editorial

The second year of Current Nutrition & Food Science has been completed after the publication of 4 issues in 2006, with a total number of 36 manuscripts. One issue per trimester will be the standard publication procedure for the following years. We are very happy and thankful for the support received from our Editorial Advisory Board members as well as from many other scientists who showed profound interest in our journal, either by submitting manuscripts for publication or by collaborating in the review of submitted manuscripts, a very important and essential task to guarantee the high scientific quality of the journal. I also wish to thank Miss Samreen Laeeq, the Manager Publications, for the great job she is doing. CNF is getting consolidated and we will work hard to have high scientific excellence in the published manuscripts and thus a high scientific impact in the area. Current Nutrition & Food Science has published in 2006 a good number of reviews on topics of interest in nutrition and food science. Some of the most interesting published reviews have dealt with supplemented infant formulas, the role of fats in hypertension, obesity and insulin resistance; insulin treatment for diabetes type 2; osteoporosis prevention by different foods; leptin and obesity; overweight, chronic liver disease and Crohn's disease in children; adipose tissue and secretion of bioactive molecules; the impact of probiotics on the immune system, infections and aging; propionate and food intake control; the role of different nutrients like vitamin D, fructooligosaccharides of edible allium, pentacyclic triterpenes from olive oil, iron as a fortificant in whole-wheat flour, cyclodextrins, taurine and selenium; dietary fibres and its physiological effects in the colon; Mediterranean diet and health status and nutrition communication. Current Nutrition & Food Science will publish a total of 4 issues in 2007 and, as a novelty, two special issues dealing with specific matters will be included. Prof. Luc Tappy is acting as guest editor for the first special issue that will be published in May. This issue will be entitled “Dietary determinants of the metabolic syndrome” and will cover the matter with 7 manuscripts written by well recognized international experts. Prof. Alessandro Laviano is acting as guest editor for the second special issue that will be published in November. This issue will be entitled “Oxidative stress and diseases: a relevant pathogenic mechanism and a promising therapeutic target“ and will include 6 manuscripts that are being prepared by well known international experts. At this moment, Current Nutrition & Food Science is already indexed in Chemical Abstracts, EMBASE, Scopus, and EMNursing and is now under review process for its inclusion in important databases like PubMed, Medline and ISI. The inclusion in these important databases will facilitate its diffusion as well as the search of its published articles by any interested scientist. Current Nutrition & Food Science provides reviews on different topics of interest in nutrition and food science, aiming to provide an updated state-of-the-art and latest novelties on each focused topic. Our final objective is the dissemination of updated and rigorous scientific information on nutrition and food science and making them available to all interested scientists and technical staff in academia, research centres, hospitals, nutrition and diet services, food and pharmaceutical industry and regulatory agencies.