Dietary Supplements
The use of dietary supplements in the United States is widespread and continues to grow as more people seek alternative and complimentary medicines. Herbal products are mainly regulated as dietary supplements but our scientific understanding of the efficacy of these botanical supplementsremains limited. This book provides the latest findings and pe …
Food Factors in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
In recent years, due to increasing demands of consumers for alternative and preventive health management, the market for supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods has expanded exponentially. Food Factors in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention brings together expert scientists inchemistry, biochemistry, genetics, pharmacology, and relate …
Free Radicals in Food
Free Radicals in Food: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Health presents recent developments in free radical chemistry as it pertains to food systems, antioxidants, and nutritional biochemistry and health. This book intends to illustrate the potential chemical links between food and health. The bookis organized into three main sections: Food Chemistry, Ant …
Functional Food and Health
Almost 10 years have passed since we organized a symposium on functional foods at the ACS national meetings, San Francisco, in 1997. Since then, a large number of studies have been conducted on food components associated with human health. Many symposiums on past research related to functionalfoods, such as antioxidants, have been held in various c …
Phenolic Compounds in Foods and Natural Health Products
Phenolic and polyphenolic compounds in foods and natural nutraceutical products represent the most widely distributed plant secondary metabolites exerting their beneficial effects as free radical scavengers and chelators of pro-oxidant metals and thus preventing low-density lipoproteinoxidation and DNA strand scission or enhancing immune function. …