Eggs and Health Promotion [Hardcover]

Eggs and Health Promotion provides up-to-date research on the use of eggs in human health. This single, convenient reference deals with the role of eggs in diet, nutrition, and disease. The book also includes current scientific data on the use of eggs to produce and deliver drugs, nutrients, and immunotherapies in patients.

Written by well-known and highly respected scientists, this book will be of interest to health practitioners and scientists; pharmacologists; and commercial egg producers. Dispelling misconceptions and covering significant recent advances in egg use, Eggs and Health Promotion makes an important contribution to the literature on the role of eggs in human health, nutrition, and disease treatment and prevention. Key chapters include the health implications and benefits of egg consumption, production of antibodies in eggs for medical use, veterinary drug residues, egg safety, and egg and health myths and misconceptions.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Contributors.

Section 1. Functional Uses of Eggs.

1. Functional Uses of Eggs-An Overview. (W.J. Stadelman and Hubert Schmieder).

2. The Role of Eggs in American Diets: Health Implications and Benefits. (Jean M. Kerver, Yikyung Park, Won O. Song).

3. Designer Eggs: Nutritional and Functional Significance. (Jeong S. Sim and Hoon H. Sunwoo).

4. Specialty Eggs: n-3 Fatty Acid-Enriched Eggs. (Elizabeth H. Sheppard).

5. Vitamin E Enrichment of Chicken Eggs. (Xeina Makhoul).

6. Reducing Infection in Infants with Egg Phospholipids. (Yingying Liu and Ronald Ross Watson).

7. Generation of Polyclonal Antibodies in the Egg Yolk. (Max Gassman).

Section 2. Cholesterol and Health: Role of Eggs.

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