Functional foods, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes

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Other Authors Arnoldi, A.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton, FL : Cambridge, England : CRC Press ; Woodhead Pub., 2004.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN1591249236
9781591249238
1855739496
9781855739499
1855737353
9781855737358
128036159X
9781280361593
0849325595
9780849325595
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 488 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • The potential and limits of functional foods in preventing cardiovascular disease
  • Assessing health claims for functional foods
  • Diet and the prevention of coronary heart disease
  • The role of fat-soluble nutrients and antioxidants in preventing heart disease
  • Vitamin E and other antioxidants in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
  • Iron intake and cardiovascular disease
  • Diet and diabetes: prevention and control
  • Nutritional risk factors in the development of type 1 and type 2 diabetes
  • Flavonoids and cardiovascular disease
  • Isoflavones and coronary heart disease
  • Plant sterols and cholesterol reduction
  • Garlic and cardiovascular disease
  • Diet, oxidative stress and cardiovascular disease
  • Dietary fat, pregnancy and the prevention of heart disease
  • Developing polyunsaturated fatty acids as functional ingredients
  • Marine micro-organisms as new sources of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)
  • Developments in fat replacers
  • Starch in food: diabetes and coronary heart disease
  • The use of cereal beta-glucans to control diabetes and cardiovascular disease
  • Grain legumes and the prevention of cardiovascular disease
  • Food fermentation by lactic acid bacteria for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.