Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs (eBook, ePUB)

Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion
Redaktion: Watson, Ronald Ross; Preedy BSc

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion brings together experts from around the world working on the cutting edge of research on fruit, vegetables, and herbs in health promotion. Offering a timely, concise, scientific appraisal of the efficacy of key foods to prevent disease and improve the quality of life, Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion provides valuable evidence-based conclusions and recommendations. This reference text will encourage further research on the potential benefits of fruits and vegetables in health and disease prevention, providing a basis for possible dietary modifications by the government and the public.

• Provides insight on bioactive constituents found in fruits and vegetables that can be further studied to improve health and disease resistance or incorporated into other food products and used as alternative medicines and dietary supplements
• Includes valuable information on how fruits are important sources of bioflavonoids and nonnutritive bioactives that modify body functions
• Offers a conclusion or summary of evidence at the end of each chapter to enhance understanding of new approaches in the field

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 618
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128029893
• Artikelnr.: 44979718

Autorenporträt

Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson's career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco

, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION 1 OVERVIEW OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND HERBS IN HEALTH
SECTION 2 FRUIT AND HEALTH AND DISEASES
SECTION 3 VEGETABLES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
SECTION 4 HERBS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE