Functional Foods (eBook, PDF)

The Connection Between Nutrition, Health, and Food Science
Redaktion: Coles, Leah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.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&nbs

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482232752
• Artikelnr.: 40392466

Autorenporträt

Leah Coles, PhD, holds a Bachelor of Technology (Hons) in Food Technology from Massey University, New Zealand, and completed her PhD in Human Nutrition at the Riddet Institute, Massey University, New Zealand. She is presently a Research Fellow in the Nutritional Interventions Lab at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Her current research involves clinical trials focused on functional foods and weight loss, particularly in relation to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She has also published several peer-reviewed articles in the area of in vitro and in vivo (animal and human) digestibility studies and linked these with mathematical models to predict the available energy (ATP) content of foods.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Connection Between Nutrition and Health. Nutrigenetics and
Metabolic Disease: Current Status and Implications for Personalised
Nutrition. A Review of the Nature and Effectiveness of Nutrition
Interventions in Adult Males: A Guide for Intervention Strategies. Nutrient
Timing Revisited: Is There a Post-Exercise Anabolic Window? Nutritional
Therapies for Mental Disorders. Fructose Metabolism in Humans: What
Isotopic Tracer Studies Tell Us. Vitamin C in Human Health and Disease is
Still a Mystery? An Overview. Daily Egg Consumption in Hyperlipidemic
Adults: Effects on Endothelial Function and Cardiovascular Risk.
Protein-Enriched Meal Replacements do not Adversely Affect Liver, Kidney or
Bone Density: An Outpatient Randomized Controlled Trial. Functional Food
and Organic Food are Competing Rather than Supporting Concepts in Europe.
Part II: Functional Foods: The Connection Between Health and Food Science.
Exercise and Functional Foods. Effects of Micronutrient Fortified Milk and
Cereal Food for Infants and Children: A Systematic Review. Effect of
Mineral-Enriched Diet and Medicinal Herbs on Fe, Mn, Zn, And Cu Uptake in
Chicken. Consuming Iodine Enriched Eggs to Solve the Iodine Deficiency
Endemic for Remote Areas in Thailand. Cinnamon Extract Inhibits
¿-Glucosidase Activity and Dampens Postprandial Glucose Excursion in
Diabetic Rats. Garlic Improves Insulin Sensitivity and Associated Metabolic
Syndromes in Fructose Fed Rats. A Bilberry Drink with Fermented Oatmeal
Decreases Postprandial Insulin Demand in Young Healthy Adults. Brazil Nuts
Intake Improves Lipid Profile, Oxidative Stress, and Microvascular Function
in Obese Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Index.