Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals, and Degenerative Disease Prevention [Hardcover]

Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals and Degenerative Disease Prevention is a compilation of different segments of functional foods and nutraceuticals focusing on their mechanism of action in the human body leading to disease prevention. Numerous chapters deal with different functional foods in terms of their efficacy, highlighting the mechanism of action of their ingredients. The book focuses on the biochemistry and molecular biology of the disease prevention process rather than simply compiling the benefits of functional foods and nutraceuticals.

Aimed primarily at an audience comprised of researchers, industry professionals, food scientists, medical professionals and graduate level students, Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals and Degenerative Disease Prevention offers a mechanism-based interpretation for the effect of nutraceuticals within the human body. Ultimately, the discussion of the biological effects of a variety of functional foods will provide a wholesome approach to the maintenance of health through judicious choice of functional foods.

Contributors xv

Preface xvii

About the Editors xix

1 Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals, and Disease Prevention: A Window to the Future of Health Promotion 3
Gopinadhan Paliyath and Kalidas Shetty

1.1 Chronic Degenerative Diseases in Modern Society: Implications on Life Quality, Productivity, Economic Burden 3

1.1.1 Diet and lifestyle changes: the missing foods 3

1.1.2 Social and economic burden of chronic degenerative diseases 4

1.2 Health Regulatory Properties of Foods: Prevention Is Better Than Cure 5

1.2.1 Fruit and vegetable consumption and disease prevention 6

References 8