Children’s and teenage literature studies: general

Astonishingly rich in nutrients, Spirulina is one of the most popular and well researched functional foods in the multi-billion dollar global food supplement market.

This book summarizes available fiber sources and how they can be incorporated into new food products to provide improved health benefits.

Characterized by obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, metabolic syndrome is associated with the risks of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease.

It is no surprise that women and men experience biological and physiological differences fundamentally and throughout the lifecycle.

The use of dietary vegetables and medicinal herbs to improve health is a phenomenon that is taking society by storm.

We have come to realize that optimal nutrient intake is determined by very specific genetic messages.

Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment, Second Edition summarizes the latest scientific knowledge on obesity in children.

As we age, our physiology changes.

Dietary fiber is widely recognized as an essential element of good nutrition.

That a relation exists between lipids/lipoproteins and coronary artery disease is no longer an arguable point.

This second volume of Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity follows on directly from the successes of the first volume published last year.

Nutritional status is recognized as a major determinant in health and disease.

Scientists, health professionals, and consumers are increasingly interested in the relationships between food components and food-drug combinations as they strive to find more effective ways to prevent or treat chronic disease.

The consequences of childhood obesity are serious and far reaching, with both physical and psychological components that add to its complexity.

Exploring the role of micronutrients in HIV, this book provides a comprehensive a review of recently published human studies and intervention trials and other important epidemiology based literature.

Exercise, Nutrition and the Older Woman: Wellness for Women Over Fifty is a comprehensive guide to the major wellness issues for women over fifty.

Evidence shows that nutritional supports can help maintain health in the HIV-infected patient by replacing lost nutrients, compensating for nutritional damage done by the retrovirus-induced immunodeficiency, and stimulating the remaining immune system and cells for better host defenses.

Adults living in certain olive-growing areas of the Mediterranean Basin display high life expectancies and rates of chronic disease that are among the lowest in the world.

As the interest in anticarcinogenic food components increases, Carcinogenic and Anticarcinogenic Food Components provides information on cancer-promoting and cancer-preventing food components, indicating their contents in foods, biological activities, possible impact on human cancer risk, and practical implications for dietary recommendations and functional design.

Premature births, musculoskeletal diseases, diabetes mellitus, and psychiatric disorders.

In competitive sports where an extra breath or a millisecond quicker neural response can spell the difference between fame and mediocrity, a number of myths have persisted around the impact of what might be considered megadoses of various vitamins and trace elements.

Including the latest reviews of the most current issues related to food and nutrition toxicity, Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity, Volume 3 distills a wide range of research on food safety and food technology.

Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity, Volume 4 includes the most recent reviews of current issues involved in the toxicity of food and nutrients.

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Historically, the amino acid tryptophan has been considered to play a role in cancer development and the aging process.

Anemias resulting from nutritional factors constitute the largest nutrition health problem affecting populations in both developed and developing nations.

There is increasing evidence that even minute amounts of trace elements can have profound effects on the human body.

Since its discovery in 1957, Coenzyme Q has piqued the interest of scientists from a wide range of disciplines because of its bioenergetics, vitamin-like behavior, and interactions with antioxidant vitamins E and C.

Are soy isoflavones neuroprotective?

It was once assumed that mitochondrial diseases were rare and that few people were affected.

Reports of the beneficial health effects of some peptides have begun to make their way into the scientific literature.

Cell signaling is at the core of most biological processes from the simplest to the most complex.

Nutritional genomics, also referred to as nutrigenomics, is considered one of the next frontiers in the post-genomic era.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, officially recognizing that various risk factors for disease are present in our environment, has proposed the concept of lifestyle-related diseases.

Current research has given us a more complete understanding of how the chemicals in foods and herbs interact with natural and synthetic drugs.

A compilation of management, medical, nutrition, psychological, and physical activity facts, models, theories, interventions, and evaluation techniques, the Handbook of Pediatric Obesity: Clinical Management is the most clinically appropriate and scientifically supported source of information available for pediatric health care and research profess

Nutrients are gaining recognition for their role in protecting against the toxic effects of free radicals, alcohol and other substances.

Distilling the available knowledge on ethanol-induced liver damage and directly complementing the available bio-medical literature, Ethanol and the Liver covers pathogenic and clinical aspects of alcoholic liver disease.

This book comprehensively accounts the current understanding of genetic mechanisms of obesity by analyzing obesity phenotypes and genotypes and, gene polymorphisms and mutations, and current results from animal model research and genetic studies in human models.

, Epidemiological studies have estimated that approximately 35 percent of cancers are potentially avoidable by nutritional modification.

Practicing evidenced-based medicine some 25 centuries ago, Hippocrates proclaimed "e;Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Oxidative Stress and Age-Related Neurodegeneration brings together researchers from a variety of fields to compare normal aging and disease-related neurodegeneration in terms of susceptibility to and effects of oxidative stress.

While the western world has only recently become enamored with the soybean, East Asia has been consuming and enjoying the associated health benefits of this versatile proteinaceous legume for centuries.

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To achieve and maintain optimal health, it is essential that the vitamins in foods are present in sufficient quantity and are in a form that the body can assimilate.

Polyphenol phytoestrogens - bioactives found in specific foods and beverages - impart antioxidant, phytoestrogenic, antiproliferative, and enzyme modulating activities within the human metabolic system.

Food Phytates takes a new look at phytates, including their potential health benefits.

While nutrition is central to the management of diabetes, there is no onediabetic diet.

The ability to regulate and manipulate the generation or remodeling of blood vessels is key to the successful treatment of many chronic diseases, both oncological and non-oncological.

Employing a uniform, easy-to-use format, Vitamin Analysis for the Health and Food Sciences, Second Edition provides the most current information on the methods of vitamin analysis applicable to foods, supplements, and pharmaceuticals.