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