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Nutrition and Health.
Continuing accumulation of scientific evidence demonstrates that nutrition is one of the most important determinants of health for the individual, and that specific nutrition habits of various populations can significantly decrease the overall risk of several chronic diseases. This landmark publicat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2008.
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| Colección: | Nonconvex optimization and its applications.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- NUTRITION AND HEALTH; CONTENTS; Preface; Contributors; Introduction: Prevention, a government priority; 1 Diet for the prevention of heart disease: how far are we?; 2 Should we eat foods or bits of foods?
- relevance to cardiovascular disease; 3 A brief review of the impact of dietary polyphenols on cardiovascular disease; 4 Significance of cholesterol absorption: inhibitory role of plant sterols and stanok; 5 Soya and the FDA health claim: prevention of cardiovascular diseases; 6 Nutritional determinants of plasma homocysteine: implications for risk of cardiovascular disease.
- 7 Dietary strategies to prevent and treat obesity8 Physical activity, exercise and weight control: movement for management?; 9 Cognitive-behavioural interventions for obesity; 10 Aspects of fetal origins of disease; 11 Plant based diets: findings from the Oxford vegetarian study and other prospective studies of vegetarians; 12 Review of diet and cancer: what is the evidence?; 13 Micronutrients, phytoprotectants and mechanisms.