Watson Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in Cancer Prevention

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-29008-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten, E-Book

Cancer is a leading cause of death among adults but research showsthat the chances of developing cancer can be reduced by lifestylechanges. Increasing numbers of people use dietary vegetables,medicinal herbs, and plant extracts to prevent or treat cancer.Their availability as "over the counter" supplements hascontributed to an explosion in the use of herbal extracts andrelated compounds for health enhancement.
This vital resource brings together the worlds leadingexperts' research, their conclusions and recommendations onfunctional foods and nutraceuticals in the prevention and treatmentof cancer. Research professionals, academics, hospital-baseddietitians, nutritionists, oncology physicians, cancer researchers,marketers and food and drug officials are just a few of the keypeople who need this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Ronald Ross

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contirbutors.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I. Approaches to Cancer Prevention: Role of Nutrition.
1. Antioxidents as Cancer Therapies.
2. Cancer and Nutrition.
3. Vitimin E in Cancer Prevention and Treatment.
4. Chemical Versus Food Forms of Selenium in CancerPrevention.
5. Nutients to Stimulate Cellular Immunity: Role in cancerPrevention and Therepy.
6. Nutrition and Skin Cancer Risk Prevention.
7. Nutritional Startegies for the Prevention of CervicalCancer.
Part II. Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs in Cancer Prevention.
8. Tomato and Cancer.
9. The Role of Dietary Fiber in Colon cancer Prevention.
10. Soy Food and Breast cancer.
11. Prevention and Therepeutic Effects of Dietary Phytochemicalson Cancer Development.
12. Phytomedicines and Cancer Prevention.
13. Phytoesrogens and Cancer.
14. Herbals and Cancer Prevention.
15. Cruciferous Vegetables and Cancer Prevention.
16. Breast Cancer Prevention.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald Ross Watson, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized nutritionist and immunologist who has studied the importance of nutrients on anti-cancer immune defense for twenty years. He has edited 52 biomedical books and directs four NIH funded biomedical grants.