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Food and Nutritional Supplements

Their Role in Health and Disease

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Joan K. Ransley

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

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  2. Judith K. Donnelly

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

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  3. Nicholas W. Read

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

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  • This book enables the readers to understand the roles of nutrients and dietary supplements in health and disease states

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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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"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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Food and Nutritional Supplements

  • Book Subtitle: Their Role in Health and Disease

  • Editors: Joan K. Ransley, Judith K. Donnelly, Nicholas W. Read

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56623-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-41737-8Published: 17 July 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-62598-5Published: 23 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-56623-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 197

  • Topics: Food Science, Pharmacy, Internal Medicine, Nutrition

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