كتاب
Phytochemicals: health promotion and therapeutic potential
| العنوان: | Phytochemicals: health promotion and therapeutic potential |
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| المساهمون: | Carkeet, Colleen. |
| بيانات النشر: | Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, c2013. |
| سنة النشر: | 2013 |
| وصف مادي: | xx, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Plant Extracts -- therapeutic use., Aged., Phytotherapy -- methods., Chronic Disease -- prevention & control., Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Congresses., Materia medica, Vegetable -- Congresses., Phytochemicals -- Congresses., Older people -- Diseases -- Prevention -- Congresses., Chronic diseases -- Prevention -- Congresses., Chronic Disease -- prevention & control -- Congresses., Phytotherapy -- methods -- Congresses., Plant Extracts -- therapeutic use -- Congresses., Aged -- Congresses., Congresses. |
| الوصف: | "An examination of foods, botanicals, and phytochemicals as they relate to the prevention of age-related chronic diseases, this book discusses herbs and spices in cancer prevention; wine, phenolics, and cancer; anthocyanins in cardiovascular health; anti-inflammatories; skin photoprotection; beny phytochemicals; green tea catechins; and cognitive function in the elderly. The book begins with an overview of phytonutrients in human health and disease, and covers chronic disease prevention, bone and joint health, skin health, obesity and metabolism, and brain health. The final chapter describes an analytical technique 'proving very powerful in phytonutrient research in humans'"--Provided by publisher. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Ch. 1. Fruit, vegetables, and phytochemicals in human health and disease / Dawna Salter Venzon and Samantha M. Izzy -- ch. 2. Wine and cancer / Susan E. Ebeler -- ch. 3. Anthocyanins and heart disease / Janet A. Novotny -- ch. 4. Multidisciplinary studies of anti-inflammatory botanicals : ginger and turmeric / Barbara N. Timmermann and Janet L. Funk -- ch. 5. Novel approach for screening natural plant ingredients for development of nutraceutical bone health supplements / David Fast ... [et al.] -- ch. 6. Comprehensive strategies for evaluating the adaptogenic properties of phytochemicals / Mary Ann Lila and Diana Cheng -- ch. 7. Prevention of obesity, diabetes, and cancer with lifestyle intervention strategies / Jacob J. Junco and Thomas J. Slaga -- ch. 8. Alterations in the adiposity and dyslipidemia of obesity by berries and berry phytochemicals / Ronald L. Prior -- ch. 9. Literature review on the ergogenic effects of quercetin / Alyson Mitchell, Jihyun Lee, and Valeria Acquarone -- ch. 10. Berry fruit and nuts : their role in reducing oxidative stress and inflammation in the aging brain / Marshall G. Miller, Barbara Shukitt-Hale, and James A. Joseph -- ch. 11. Brahmi : traditional botanical medicine for cognitive decline / Carlo Calabrese and Amala Soumyanath -- ch. 12. Bioavailability of dietary carotenoids in humans : a review of results from studies with momordica cochinchinensis spreng (Redmelon) and of [superscript 14]C-tracer studies using accelerator mass spectrometry / Le Thuy Vuong. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn774498158 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-4665-5162-6 1-4665-5162-3 |
| Relation: | International Phytochemical Conference (7th : 2008 : Buena Park, Calif.) |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.013612044.X |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781466551626 1466551623 |
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