Nutrients, Dietary Supplements, and Nutriceuticals: Cost Analysis Versus Clinical Benefits [Hardcover]

Nutrients, Dietary Supplements, and Nutriceuticals: Cost Analysis Versus Clinical Benefits provides the most current, concise, scientific appraisal and economic analysis (costs vs. benefit) of nutritional supplements and bioactive components (nutriceuticals) of foods in improving the quality of life. It fills a much-needed gap to have a single volume provide a synopsis of cost analysis of dietary supplements and nutritional products as well as therapies for treatment and prevention of disease. Chapters include emerging fields of science and important discoveries relating to early stages of new nutriceuticals in cancer prevention, prior to clinical trials.Written by international and national standing leaders in the field, Nutrients, Dietary Supplements, and Nutriceuticals: Cost Analysis Versus Clinical Benefits is essential reading for nutritionists, pharmacologists, health care professionals, research scientists, cancer workers, pathologists, molecular and cellular biochemists, physicians, general practitioners as well as those interested in diet and nutrition in disease resistance via immune regulation.Design of economic incentive instruments in nutrition policy .- Nutrition Policy for the Prevention of Disease: Issues of Cost-effectiveness.- Economics of food fortification.- The economic value of dietary supplements.- Influences on the purchase of fruit and vegetables by parents for children.- Fruit and Vegetable Prices, Dietary Intakes and Income: Potential Cost versus Benefit.- The role of ethnicity in shaping dietary patterns: a review on the social and psychological correlates of food consumption.- Low-cost food, recovery and death in malnourished children.- Using price incentives to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables among a low-income population.- Cost-effectiveness of nutritional interventions for bone health in children and young adults  what is known and where are the gaps?.- Economic evaluation of dental caries prevention programs usilƒI