Food and Nutritional Supplements

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. The Rise and Rise of Food and Nutritional Supplements — an Overview of the Market

   • Joan K. Ransley

   Pages 1-16

3. Why do Health Professionals Need to Know More About Nutrition?

   • Matthew E. Joynson

   Pages 17-28

4. Nutrient Requirements in Health and Disease

   • Judith K. Donnelly

   Pages 29-44

5. Placebo and Panacea: The Healing Effect of Nutritional Supplements

   • Nicholas W. Read

   Pages 45-64

6. Antioxidants, Nutrition and Health

   • Anthony Diplock

   Pages 65-79

7. Nutritional and Non-Nutritional Uses of Vitamin B6

   • David A. Bender

   Pages 81-99

8. Folic Acid and Disease Prevention: A Long Day’s Journey Into Light

   • Christopher Schorah

   Pages 101-110

9. The Addition of Micronutrients to Food

   • H. Frank Woods

   Pages 111-118

10. Probiotics and Prebiotics in Health

    • Colette Shortt, Seppo Salminen, Marcel Roberfroid

    Pages 119-140

11. Phytoestrogens and Health

    • Janet Cade, Victoria Burley, Sara Kirk

    Pages 141-155

12. Dietary Supplements and their Role in the Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Heart Disease

    • Peter Jackson, Lawrence Ramsay, Erica Wallis

    Pages 157-174

13. The Scientific Basis for Fish Oil Supplementation in Rheumatoid Arthritis

    • Philip Calder

    Pages 175-197

Consumer interest in diet and nutritional supplements is increasing dramatically. Patients and members of the public are seeking advice from health professionals, nutritionists and food scientists. This book is designed to meet the needs of those professionals who are called upon to advise patients and the general public. It provides also a valuable text for those who are researchers or decision makers in the food and pharmaceutical industries. The text presents a thorough account of this topical subject and enables the reader to appreciate the functions of nutrients in health and common disease states, to understand the current debates over the roles of nutrients and supplements in the diet, and to answer those questions frequently asked by patients and consumers.

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• Stoffwechselerkrankungen
• Vitamin
• Vitamin B6
• alcohol
• cancer
• ethics
• hunger
• intervention
• lifestyle
• metabolic diseases
• nutrition
• prevention
• probiotic
• probiotics

From the reviews:

"This book is recommended because each of the contributors has provided a concise but comprehensive coverage of the latest developments in our understanding of nutrition in relation to food and nutritional supplements. Therefore, an informed view has been created by the editors as a basis when making decisions about healthy eating or the use of dietary supplements." (Advances in Food Science, Vol. 24 (3), 2002)

"The purpose of this book is to examine the phenomenon of self medication with nutritional supplements from both a biological and psychological perspective. … This book is designed to meet the needs of those professionals who are called upon to advise patients and the general public. It also provides a valuable text for those who are researchers or decision makers in the food and pharmaceutical industries." (Food Trade Review, Vol. 72, February, 2002)

• Public Health Nutrition Unit Trinity and All Saints, College of the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  Joan K. Ransley, Judith K. Donnelly

• The Centre for Integrated Medicine Institute for General Practice and Primary Care, University of Sheffield Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK

  Nicholas W. Read

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