Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Useful to nutritionists, physicians, and public health professionals as well as food scientists and technologists, and process engineers, this book reviews the metabolism and health benefits as well as international safety and regulatory information of diacylglycerol oils.

Healthful Lipids addresses critical and current regulatory issues and emerging technologies, as well as the efforts made toward the production of healthier lipids.

Advances in Conjugated Linoleic Acid Research, Volume 2 is the second book in a series devoted entirely to conjugated linoleic acid.

As the field of nutritional neuroscience has grown, both the scientific community and the general population have expressed a heightened interest in the effect of nutrients on behavior.

Our understanding of eating disorders has improved markedly over the past 10 years since the publication of the previous edition of this volume.

A complex disease entity, intestinal failure (IF) has only recently become accepted as a distinct clinical syndrome.

Bioactive peptides are used to enhance the body's antioxidant status, antisepsis capacity, immune function, anti-inflammatory capacity, mineral absorption, and appetite.

While the gastrointestinal tract ingests, digests, and absorbs nutrients, the liver transforms nutrients, synthesizes plasma proteins, and detoxifies bacteria and toxins absorbed from the gut.

Nutritional assessment is a key to determining the health and performance efficiency of professional, collegiate, and recreational athletes.

Dietary factors have been implicated in at least four of the ten leading causes of death in the U.

A debilitating disease of pain, inflammation, and loss of mobility and quality of life, arthritis takes victims of all ages, from young children to seniors.

Vegetables, fruits, and herbs have been used as cancer preventatives for millennia.

In the historical record there is abundant evidence that obesity was a medical and health concern as long as medicine has been practiced.

Presenting up-to-date data in an easy-to-use format, this comprehensive overview of the chemistry of bioactive components of fruits and cereals addresses the role of these compounds in determining taste, flavor, and color, as well as recent claims of anticarcinogenic, antimutagenic, and antioxidant capabilities.

Extensive research on nutrigenomics has unveiled numerous epigenetic mechanisms that are influenced by our dietary signature.

Say Bonjour to Green Cuisine-it's the new French way to be healthy, happy, and stylish, bien sur!

This book has a primary focus on inclusions for solutions to problems and not just more on the nature of the current and emerging problems that most other competing titles present.

If youve selected this book, youve either heard about the low-carb high-fat diet (LCHF) but arent sure what all the fuss is about, or youve heard a lot but you dont trust that its healthy, or possibly youve tried it and it either didnt for you or only partially worked.

If youve selected this book, youve either heard about the low-carb high-fat diet (LCHF) but arent sure what all the fuss is about, or youve heard a lot but you dont trust that its healthy, or possibly youve tried it and it either didnt for you or only partially worked.

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The obesity epidemic reflects a failure to understand how meals are chosen.

In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man 'without either country or language': even his shipboard communities were the product of a 'cosmopolitan' vision.

First published in 1821, Robert Southey's 'Expedition of Orsua and the Crimes of Aguirre' is the first account in English of one of the earliest expeditions down the Amazon River, made in the years 1560-1 by a renegade band of Spanish conquistadors in search of El Dorado.

Designed to help make choices about what foods and supplements could benefit your health in a market where there is still speculation, lack of advertising regulation and where many products are not what they seem.

Easy-to-use tool for making your body & mind feel and work great.

This comprehensive guide covers major events in American literature, ranging from the 18th century to the 20th century.

As the global population surges, the challenge of feeding the world becomes increasingly urgent.

This book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system.

The American Obesity Association identifies obesity's link to numerous medical conditions, including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, several cancers, and a host of inflammatory disorders.

Modern food biotechnology is now a billion-dollar industry, producing functional foods and nutraceuticals that offer a whole host of increased health benefits, including prevention against illness, and chronic and degenerative conditions.

Thanks to new tools of research and the heightened scientific rigor with which they are applied, medical science has reached a far more heightened understanding of nutrition's complex relation with digestive disease.

Well-illustrated throughout and with in-depth analyses, Nutrition, Diet Therapy, and the Liver provides a holistic understanding of the causative elements that precipitate liver disease and the nutritional factors and regimens that reverse deteriorating hepatic function.

While the science of yogurt is nearly as old as the origin of mankind, there have been rapid changes in yogurt development since the turn of the 19th century, fueled by continuing developments in biological sciences.

Food is the sustenance of life.

Dietary Supplement GMP is a one-stop how-to road map to the final dietary supplement GMP regulations recently issued by the FDA covering the manufacture, packaging, and holding of dietary supplement products.

During the past decade since the first edition of this practical work was published, global prevalence of obesity has increased by epic proportions, and physical fitness levels have continued to decline.