Functional Foods by Leah Coles - 9781774633168

Apple Academic Press > CRC Press

Functional FoodsThe Connection Between Nutrition, Health, and Food Science\nAuthor(s): Leah Coles\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Apple Academic Press Inc., Canada\nImprint: Apple Academic Press Inc.\nISBN-13: 9781774633168, 978-1774633168\nSynopsis\nThis title includes a number of Open Access chapters.\n\nThis new book presents a variety of important research on functional foodsfoods that have another role related to disease prevention or health. The first section of the book includes chapters on the complicated relationships between nutrition, physical and mental health, and disease. Section two focuses on the connection between health science and food, and presents a number of case studies on the possible uses of functional foods. The book discusses important methods for nutritional interventions in relation to diseases such as obesity and other prominent health concerns in modern society. \n\nTopics include: \n\nNutrigenetics and metabolic diseases \n\nNutrition intervention strats