Book Details
Orange Code:56955
Paperback:417 pages
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Sections:
1. Nutrigenetics and Metabolic Disease: Current Status and Implications for Personalised Nutrition2. A Review of the Nature and Effectiveness of Nutrition Interventions in Adult Males: A Guide for Intervention Strategies3. Nutrient Timing Revisited: Is there a Post-Exercise Anabolic Window?4. Nutritional Therapies for Mental Disorders5. Fructose Metabolism in Humans: What Isotopic Tracer Studies Tell Us6. Vitamin C in Human Health and Disease is Still a Mystery? An Overview7. Daily Egg Consumption in Hyperlipidemic Adults: Effects on Endothelial Function and Cardiovascular Risk8. Protein-Enriched Meal Replacements Do Not Adversely Affect Liver, Kidney or Bone Density: An Outpatient Randomized Controlled Trial9. Functional Food and Organic Food are Competing Rather than Supporting Concepts in Europe10. Exercise and Functional Foods11. A Bilberry Drink with Fermented Oatmeal Decreases Postprandial Insulin Demand in Young Healthy Adults12. Brazil Nuts Intake Improves Lipid Profile, Oxidative Stress, and Microvascular Function in Obese Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Description:
This new book presents a variety of important research on functional foods—foods that have another role related to disease prevention or health. The first section of the book includes chapters on the complicated relationships between nutrition, physical and mental health, and disease. Section two focuses on the connection between health science and food, and presents a number of case studies on the possible uses of functional foods. The book discusses important methods for nutritional interventions in relation to diseases such as obesity and other prominent health concerns in modern society.
Topics include:
- Nutrigenetics and metabolic diseases
- Nutrition intervention strategies to improve health
- Nutrition consumption timing around exercise sessions
- Nutritional therapies for mental disorders
- Health benefits of particular foods, such as eggs, milk, cereal, garlic, cinnamon, nuts, blueberries, etc.
- Mineral- and protein-enriched foods
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