Functional Foods The Connection Between Nutrition, Health, and Food Science [Hardcover]

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This new book presents a variety of important research on functional foodsfoods that have another role related to disease prevention or health. The first section of the book includes chapters on the complicated relationships between nutrition, physical and mental health, and disease. Section two focuses on the connection between health science and food, and presents a number of case studies on the possible uses of functional foods. The book discusses important methods for nutritional interventions in relation to diseases such as obesity and other prominent health concerns in modern society.

Topics include:

• Nutrigenetics and metabolic diseases
• Nutrition intervention strategies to improve health
• Nutrition consumption timing around exercise sessions
• Nutritional therapies for mental disorders
• Health benefits of particular foods, such as eggs, milk, cereal, garlic, cinnamon, nuts, blueberries, etc.
• Mineral- and protein-enriched foods

Part I: The Connection Between Nutrition and Health

Chapter 1: Nutrigenetics and Metabolic Disease: Current Status and Implications for Personalised Nutrition
Catherine M. Phillips

Chapter 2: A Review of the Nature and Effectiveness of Nutrition Interventions in Adult Males: A Guide for Intervention Strategies
Pennie J. Taylor, Gregory S. Kolt, Corneel Vandelanotte, Cristina M. Caperchione, W. Kerry Mummery, Emma S. George, Mohanraj Karunanithi, and Manny J. Noakes

Chapter 3: Nutrient Timing Revisited: Is There a Post-Exercise Anabolic Window?
Alan Albert Aragon and Brad Jon Schoenfeld

Chapter 4: Nutritional Therapies for Mental Disorders
Shaheen E. Lakhan and Karen F. Vieira lS'