Nutrition and diet play a crucial role in sustaining good health throughout human lives. Food provides us with essential nutrients involved in many physiological activities and biological processes in the body including growth and development, metabolism, immune function, and overall well-being. Nutrition and Diet in Health: Principles and Applications reviews and discusses the issues related to the roles of nutrition and diet in human health and diseases.
The book contains two sections – one section features principles, the other, covers applications. Part I provides information on sustainable use of nutrition and diets in health and diseases; advanced biotechnological approaches to improve nutritional content of food; trace elements in nutrition; drug and nutrient interactions; functional foods and nutraceuticals in health maintenance; and biomarkers of functional foods and nutraceuticals in health maintenance. Part II discusses the significance of nutrition in selected human diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, infection, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic co-morbidities. It also discusses optimal nutrition for wellness, fitness, pregnancy, mental health, aging, and longevity.
Features
- Molecular and cellular-based research findings on the principles and applications of nutrition and diet in health
- Roles of nutritional agents in the pathogenesis of human diseases
- Underlying mechanisms that govern activities and strategies to prevent pathological conditions using nutritional agents
Nutrition and Diet in Health: Principles and Applications is suitable for academia and scientists, enhances knowledge of students in healthcare and areas of biological sciences.
Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 1: Sustainable uses of diets and nutrition in human health
Johnson O. Oladele
CHAPTER 2: Advanced Biotechnological Approaches in Improving Food Nutrients
Dr. Nisha Rana and Vartika Singh
CHAPTER 3: Trace elements in nutrition
Stephen Adeniyi Adefegha
CHAPTER 4: Drug-nutrient interactions
Oluwafisayo Modupe Gbadeyan, & Adenike Temidayo Oladiji
CHAPTER 5: Food preservation, spoilage, and food adulteration
Ebenezer I.O. Ajayi
CHAPTER 6: Alcohol nutrition
John Adeolu Falode
CHAPTER 7: Functional foods and nutraceuticals in health maintenance
Monica BUTNARIU
CHAPTER 8: Markers of functional foods and nutraceuticals in health maintenance
Monica BUTNARIU
CHAPTER 9: Plant-based short and cyclo-peptides
Ebenezer I.O. Ajayi, Olorunfemi R. Molehin, Adeniyi S. Ohunayo, Aderonke E. Fakayode, Abraham Nkumah, Olabimpe Olayinka, Alaba A. Adebayo
CHAPTER 10: Role of dietary fiber and phytonutrients in human health and nutrition
Rukayat A. Oyegoke, Johnson Olaleye Oladele, Oluwaseun Titilope Oladele, Adenike Temidayo Oladiji
CHAPTER 11: Nutrition on mental health
Fatima Alaba Ibrahim, Adenike Temidayo Oladiji
CHAPTER 12: Nutrition and fitness
Idowu Yetunde Fakolujo, Adenike Temidayo Oladiji
CHAPTER 13: Nutrition and cancer
Omowumi O Adewale, Johnson Olaleye Oladele, Adenike Temidayo Oladiji
CHAPTER 14: Lectins: (Glyco-)-proteins for health and longevity
Taiwo Scholes Adewole, Stanley Chukwuejim, Titilayo Oluwaseun Agunbiade, Adenike Kuku
CHAPTER 15: Biomedical prospects of lectins in cancer, infectious diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases
Taiwo Scholes Adewole, Stanley Chukwuejim, Titilayo Oluwaseun Agunbiade, Gbenga Emmanuel Ogundepo, Adenike Kuku
CHAPTER 16: Molecular mechanism underlying nutritional influence on the onset of infectious diseases
Bello, Taoheed Olawale, Adenike Temidayo Oladiji
Chapter 17: Therapeutic potentials of dietary phytochemicals in neurodegenerative diseases
Johnson Olaleye Oladele, Omowumi O Adewale, Adenike Temidayo Oladiji
CHAPTER 18: Chrono-nutrition: Circadian Rhythms and Diet
John Adeolu Falode
CHAPTER 19: Nutritional approach to the treatment of metabolic co-morbidity
Ebenezer I.O. Ajayi, Olorunfemi R. Molehin, Alaba A. Adebayo, Adeniyi S. Ohunayo, Mariam A. Odebode, Jacinta O. Okonkwo
