Nutrition

While the benefits of green tea are well-documented, researchers have only recently turned their attention to the action and health benefits of other teas. Tea and Tea Products: Chemistry and Health-Promoting Properties provides extensive coverage of the chemistry, biology, and health promoting prop..

This book helps you make sense of the data your school district collects, including state student achievement results as well as other qualitative and quantitative data. Easy-to-use templates, tools, and examples are available on the accompanying CD-ROM...

Health care providers are fielding more questions from patients seeking to help their health conditions naturally, prevent disease, and generally eat better. This guide provides scientific information for more than 250 foods, food groups, nutrients, and phytochemicals. It presents and summarizes res..

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. _x005F_x000D_ This reference offers a comprehensive and thorough guide to a field that is rapidly expanding and points to new directions in research and public policy. Edited by a doctor with extensive experience as a researcher, writer, and medi..

The Glycemic Index: Applications in Practice has gathered together, in an unbiased and critical way, all the evidence and research on GI, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, polycystic ovary syndrome, pregnancy outcomes, sports performance, eye health, and cognitive function..

This volume presents comprehensive and engaging coverage of the key issues at the intersection of public health, policy, and food. Topics will range from examining who regulates food systems and whether those regulations are working; government challenges relating to food; current debates on food pr..

Methods for determining, isolating and identifying human milk lipids, together with problems associated with sampling and analysis, are described in some detail in the first 3 chapters of this book...

Recognized as potent antioxidants, tocotrienols play a role in cholesterol reduction, tumor suppression, reversal of arteriosclerosis, and protection of the heart against oxidative stress. Compiling contributions from leading researchers, this book overviews tocotrienols, and examines their sources,..

It is therefore obvious that good patient management necessitates the use of an alternative route of nutritional support in patients unable to eat or absorb an oral diet...

Historically, the amino acid tryptophan has been considered to play a role in cancer development and the aging process. In recent times, this nutrient has been associated with eosinophila myalgia syndrome - a new human disease that attacks the muscular system. This detailed book examines the implic..

The studies presented in this book demonstrate that a new concept in the management of carious intestinal disorders should be considered, namely, that common nutrients may protect or heal the mucosa by virtue of the particular form and mode in which they are delivered to the intestinal lumen and the..

In recent years there has been an abundance of scientific knowledge validating the positive health effects of the vegetarian diet as well as a related increase in the number of people practicing the vegetarian diet. Public health practitioners and nutritionists need not only to be aware of these adv..