Health Food Books
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Probiotic & Prebiotic Foods
Prebiotics is defined as a selectively fermented ingredient that allows specific changes, both in the composition and/or activity in the gastrointestinal microflora that confers benefits upon host well-being and health. This book encompasses the...
Encyclopedia of Nutrition Research
Presents and discusses research in the study of nutrition. This book discusses topics that include appetite control; central inhibitory mechanism controlling water and sodium intake; the validity of nutritional assessment; child dietary intake; nutrition and diabetes mellitus type 1; vegetable and food consumption; and, more.
Probiotic & Prebiotic Foods
Prebiotics is defined as a selectively fermented ingredient that allows specific changes, both in the composition and/or activity in the gastrointestinal microflora that confers benefits upon host well-being and health. This book encompasses the advances of Probiotics in health and food technology.
Nutritional Insights & Food Safety
A balanced and healthy diet is prerequisite for a good health and well-being. This book presents scientific facts and evidences that may help the readership to create its own picture and attitude about nutrition, since the essence of the food...
Frontiers in Nutrition Research
Nutrition is a 3-part process. First, food or drink is consumed. Second, the body breaks down the food or drink into nutrients. Third, the nutrients travel through the bloodstream to different parts of the body where they are used as 'fuel' and for many other purposes. This book examines research in this field.
Trends in Dietary Carbohydrates Research
Carbohydrates are present in food comprising of digestible sugars and starches and indigestible cellulose and other dietary fibres. The former are the major source of energy. This book examines and presents research of the complexity, effects and nutritional aspects of dietary carbohydrates.
Chocolate, Fast Foods & Sweeteners
Examines the effects on health of the consumption of what might be termed three extremely widely-consumed anti-nutrition foods: chocolate, fast food and sweeteners. This book examines the effects on health of the consumption of what might be...
Nutritional Insights & Food Safety
A balanced and healthy diet is prerequisite for a good health and well-being. This book presents scientific facts and evidences that may help the readership to create its own picture and attitude about nutrition, since the essence of the food safety can not be discussed excluding the individually coloured philosophical approach.
Handbook of Green Tea and Health Research
After water, tea signifies the second most frequently consumed beverage world-wide. Research shows that tea consumption may have its strongest effect among patients with cardiovascular disease. This book includes such areas of research as the effects of selenium-containing green tea on food consumption and body weight gain.
Diet Therapy Research Trends
Nutrition research has moved from a field often associated with personal preferences in what food we consume to a field closely connected with medicine and health. Nutrition is a crucial field of biology and medicine. Diet therapy deals with actions designed to counter or prevent disease. This book presents research in this field.
Nutrition Research Advances
To give the body proper nutrition, a person has to eat and drink enough of the foods that contain key nutrients. This book examines the research in this field.
Child Nutrition Research Advances
Presents research on the issue of child nutrition. This book covers topics such as breastfeeding research and educational programs, concepts about fruits and vegetables, psychological aspects of child nutrition and the consequences of child nutrition on lifespan nutrition. It also emphasizes on beverage intakes and other food behaviours.
Amino Acids in Human Nutrition and Health
Human health issues relating to amino acids are extremely broad and include metabolic disorders of amino acid metabolism as well as their presence in food and use as supplements. This book covers the biochemistry of amino acid metabolism in the...
Food Hydrocolloids
Gathers the research from around the globe in the study of food hydrocolloids and highlights such topics as: collagen and gelatine extracted from skate skin, sucrose pectin interaction, utilisation of glucomannans for health, and others.
Herbicides
Herbicides Herbicides have become an important tool as a plant protection agent for boosting food production. However, herbicide use also carries risks that include environmental, ecological and human health effects. This book presents current...
Thermal Processing of Food
This is the latest and most authoritative documentation of current scientific knowledge regarding the health effects of thermal food processing. Authors from all over Europe and the USA provide an international perspective, weighing up the risks...
Dietary Fiber, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Health
Fruits are an excellent source of essential vitamins, minerals, and dietary fibre in the human diet. They are also a rich source of secondary metabolites that are proving to play an important role in the protection against numerous chronic diseases. This book explores the different processing methods used in the food industry.
Spices
Presents topical research in the study of the types, uses and health benefits of spices. In this book, topics discussed include the cultivation of sicilian aromatic plants; the role of spice products' synthetic cannabinoids in systems toxicity; and the chemical composition, biological properties and applications of rosmarinus officinalis L.