Evidence-Based Nutrition and Clinical Evidence of Bioactive Foods in Human Health and Disease

Features:

• Presents information on the prevention of disease using bioactive compounds
• Consolidates the research outcome from a variety of sources on specific bioactive foods
• Contains coverage of bioactive lipids and lipid mediators, bioactive phytochemicals, probiotics, bioactive proteins, peptides, polysaccharides, fibers and sphingolipids

Table Of Contents:

1. Preface
2. Bioactive Lipids and their metabolism, function, and sources
3. Bioactive Lipids and their impacts on epigenetics
4. Bioactive Lipids in cancers
5. Bioactive Lipids in Immune cells function and immune disorders
6. Bioactive lipids in metabolic syndromes, and hemostatic factors and fibrinolysis
7. Bioactive lipids and brain function: From their mechanistic roles to clinical trials
8. Bioactive lipids on platelet function and platelet-vessel wall Interactions
9. Polysaccharide on diabetes, obesity and other CVD risk factors
10. Polysaccharides on the gut microbiome and epigenome
11. Polysaccharides and their bioactivity and biomedical applications
12. Polysaccharides and immune function
13. Polysaccharides on metabolic syndromes and dyslipidemia
14. Polysaccharides and Cancer
15. Polyphenols and their antioxidant and non-antioxidant effects in health and disease
16. Polyphenols in neuroprotection and brain disorders
17. Polyphenols and their impacts on the host epigenome and the gut microbiome
18. Polyphenols and cancer
19. Polyphenols and their effects on metabolic syndromes and other CVD risk factors
20. Gut microbiota on human health and disease
21. Gut microbiota and lipid metabolism and metabolic syndrome
22. Gut Microbiota and their effects on atherosclerosis, platelet function, and hypertension
23. Gut microbiota and the immune system and inflammation
24. Gut microbiota and brain function and pathophysiology
25. Gut microbiota and obesity and the body weight regulation
26. Gut microbiota and hypertension, diabetes, and other cardiovascular risk factors
27. Bioactive peptides and proteins on hypertension and endothelium function
28. Bioactive alkaloids
29. Health effects of terpenes
30. Clinical use of Curcumin
31. Sources and bioactivity of volatile compounds of fruits and vegetable
32. Cardioprotective properties of water-soluble compounds of Tomato