Watson Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-12-375689-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 1226 Seiten

The use of nuts and seeds to improve human nutritional status has proven successful for a variety of conditions including in the treatment of high cholesterol, reduced risk of Type-2 Diabetes, and weight control. Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention is a complete guide to the health benefits of nuts and seeds. This book is the only single-source scientific reference to explore the specific factors that contribute to these potential health benefits, as well as discussing how to maximize those potential benefits. - Organized by seed-type with detailed information on the specific health benefits of each to provide an easy-access reference for identifying treatment options - Insights into health benefits will assist in development of symptom-specific functional foods - Includes photographs for visual identification and confirmation - Indexed alphabetically by nut/seed with a second index by condition or disease

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Ronald Ross

Leseproben

Contributors
Mansurah A. Abdulazeez,     Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria Mahinda Abeywardena,     CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Mujitaba S. Abubakar,     Department of Pharmacognosy and Drug Development, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria G.O. Adegoke,     Department of Food Technology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria Oluyemisi Elizabeth Adelakun,     Department of Food Science and Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria Shyam S. Agrawal,     HOD Department of Pharmacology, Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, New Delhi, India Francis Agyemang-Yeboah,     Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medical Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana Cecilia Aiello,     Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy Ibironke Adetolu Ajayi,     Industrial Unit, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria Olubunmi Bolanle Ajayi,     Department of Biochemistry, University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria Teresa A. Akeng'a,     Academic Division, Bondo University College (Constituent College of Maseno University), Bondo, Kenya Aderemi Caleb Aladeokin,     Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria Mohamed Ali Al-Farsi,     Date Processing Research Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Oman Amna Ali,     Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Cardiology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Niloufer Sultan Ali,     Department of Family Medicine, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Ryszard Amarowicz,     Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Olsztyn, Poland Sunday J. Ameh,     Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Quality Control, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Garki, Abuja, Nigeria Larissa Lovatto Amorin,     Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil B. Andallu,     Department of Home Science, Sri Sathya Sai University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India Paula B. Andrade,     REQUIMTE/Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Porto University, Porto, Portugal Sirajudheen Anwar,     Department of Pharmacology, Prin.K.M. Kundanai College of Pharmacy, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai, India Harry Archimède,     INRA, UR143 Unité de Recherches Zootechniques, Centre INRA-Antilles-Guyane, Domaine de Duclos, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe (French West Indies) Ignasius Radix Astadi,     Department of Food Technology, Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University, Surabaya, Indonesia Everaldo Attard,     Institute of Earth Systems, Division of Rural and Food Systems, University of Malta, Msida MSD, Malta Marcos Aurélio de Santana,     Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Departamento de Farmácia, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brasil Cecile Badet,     Laboratoire Odontologique de Recherche, UFR d'Odontologie, Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux Cedex, France Sachin L. Badole,     Department of Pharmacology, Poona College of Pharmacy, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Maharashtra, India Daniel J. Ballhorn,     Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, USA Monica S. Banach,     Clinical Nutrition & Risk Factor Modification Center, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Douglas C. Baxter,     ALS Scandinavia AB, Luleå, Sweden Dorothea Bedigian,     Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri, USA Mikhail A. Belozersky,     A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Valerio Berardi,     Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy; On leave at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Brooklyn, New York, USA Trust Beta,     Department of Food Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Aruna Bhatia,     Immunology and Immunotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University, Punjab, India Sanjib Bhattacharya,     Bengal School of Technology (A College of Pharmacy), Sugandha, Hooghly, West Bengal, India Jitendra D. Bhosale,     National Research Institute of Basic Ayurvedic Sciences, CCRAS, Nehru Garden, Kothrud, Pune, India Sujit K. Bhutia,     Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Hans Konrad Biesalski,     Institute for Biological Chemistry and Nutrition, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Abdullah bin Habeeballah bin Abdullah Juma,     Department of Orthopaedics & Trauma, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Rune Blomhoff,     Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway Judith Boateng,     Alabama A & M University, Normal, Alabama, USA Subhash L. Bodhankar,     Department of Pharmacology, Poona College of Pharmacy, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Maharashtra, India Anders Borgen,     Agrologica, Mariager, Denmark Tomasz Brzozowski,     Department of Physiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland H.N. Büyükkartal,     Ankara University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Tandogan, Ankara, Turkey Deon V. Canyon,     Disaster Health and Crisis Management Unit, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville Qld, Australia Monica H. Carlsen,     Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway Benildo S. Cavada,     BioMol-Lab, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza/Ceará, Brazil Pierre Champy,     Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie, UMR CNRS 8076 BioCIS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris-Sud 11, France Cheng-Jie Chen,     Department of Naval Medicine, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China Jianwei Chen,     Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China Yong Chen,     Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of...