Sônia Maria de Figueiredo

Sonia Maria de Figueiredo was born in Ouro Preto; daughter of Jair Felipe de Figueiredo and Julieta Ribeiro de Figueiredo, she attended the School of Nutrition at the Federal University of Ouro Preto where she currently works as a professor. After graduation she went to live in the capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte where she start developing her professional carrer. In the 1990s, she stood out in her professional carrer with the care for people with cancer and AIDS while working with cooking workshops for these suffering from these diseases. In year of 2000, she began her academic life, writing and publishingin magazines and books. Her main field of research is food and their active ingredients (curcumin, beta glucan, sulforaphane, among others). In 2012, she began her research on the benefits of Green Propolis as a doctoral student at the Institute of Education and Research of Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte; she currently works as a professor and researcher in studies related to healthy and functional food for the treatment of dyslipidemia and cancer. SHe stood out in the Brazilian and the international area teaching students, patients and professionals to work with the problematic methodology in dealing with food and research. Relying on her personal experience, she published some works on the Effects of dietary intervention on lipids profile of HIV infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in European Scientific Journal April 2013 edition vol.9, No.12 - ISSN 1857-7431; Report On The Balantidiasis Case In A Person Living With HIV / AIDS (PLWHA) in. Journal of Tropical Pathology, Vol 41 (4): 505-509. October to December 2012 and The Properties of Anti-Oxidant Isothiocyanates: A Review in Recent Patents on Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Drug Discovery 2013, 7, 213-225.