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These 20 reviews detail the scientific evidence for the health effects of vitamins, minerals, functional foods, and other classes of foods. The articles provide recommendations on a wide range of scientific nutritional questions, including the cardiovascular effects of homocysteine and dietary fats, the importance of antioxidants and soy isoflavones with respect to heart disease and cancer, and the use of dietary modifications in the prevention and treatment of blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Contributors include medical experts in fields like epidemiology, molecular biology, cancer prevention, nutrition, medical statistics, osteoporosis research, exercise and sport science, and hypertension research.

Book Info

Univ. of Wisconsin, La Crosse. A guide to the growing body of literature on the use of nutrition for health and as a preventative measure against disease. Emphasizes, for the health professionals and the public, how components in food such as fats, soy isoflavones and antioxidants may directly affect health. DNLM: Nutrition.

Book Description

An authoritative and comprehensive collection of cutting-edge reviews by leading authorities detailing the scientific evidence for the health effects of vitamins, minerals, functional foods, and other classes of foods. The authors provide readers with updated recommendations on a wide range of significant nutritional questions, including the cardiovascular effects of homocysteine and dietary fats; the importance of antioxidants and soy isoflavones with respect to heart disease and cancer; and the use of dietary modifications in the prevention and/or treatment of blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Richly insightful and up-to-date, Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention offers sound advice on optimizing our nutritional habits, as well as a valuable guide to the growing body of literature that shows how nutritional interventions have become essential to reducing the risk of chronic disease.

Series Introduction
Foreword
Preface
Contributors
1 Nutrition Advocacy for Better Health 1
2 Population Nutrition, Health Promotion, and Government Policy 13
3 Calcium Intake and the Prevention of Chronic Disease: From Osteoporosis to Premenstrual Syndrome 31
4 Sodium and Other Dietary Factors in Hypertension 51
5 Proper Nutritional Habits for Reducing the Risk of Cancer 59
6 Health Benefits of Soy Isoflavones 75
7 Antioxidants in Health and Disease 89
8 Dietary Antioxidants and Protection from Coronary Heart Disease 101
9 Dietary Fat, Blood Lipids, and Coronary Heart Disease Risk 121
10 Current Theories Regarding the Influence of Diet and the Control of Obesity 135
11 Homocysteine, Diet, and Cardiovascular Disease 151
12 Medical Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes: What Are the Unanswered Questions? 167
13 Health Aspects of Fish and n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids from Plant and Marine Origin 195
14 Optimizing Nutrition for Exercise and Sport 207
15 Health Promoting Herbs as Useful Adjuncts to Prevent Chronic Diseases 237
16 Fetal Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease in Adult Life 253
17 Impact of Nutritional Epidemiology 269
18 Use of Biotechnology to Improve Food Production and Quality 289
19 Nutrition on the Internet 299
20 Nutrition in the 21st Century 315
Index 325