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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816234903321

Titolo

Anti-ageing nutrients : evidence-based prevention of age-associated diseases / / edited by Delminda Neves ; contributors, Henrique Almeida [and nineteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-118-82340-0

1-118-82321-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (581 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

613.2

Soggetti

Aging - Prevention

Aging - Nutritional aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Human ageing, a biological view / Henrique de Almeida and Liliana Matos -- To eat or not to eat : anti-ageing effects of energy restriction / Delminda Neves, Maria Joao Martins, Emanuel dos Passos and Ines Tomada -- Nutrition, epigenetics and ageing / Jill McKay and Luisa A. Wakeling -- Nutritional intervention in age-related genetic and epigenetic instability and cancer / Thomas Ong and Ana Paula de Melo Loureiro -- Nutraceuticals in immunosenescence / Thea Magrone and Emilio Jirillo -- Cardiovascular ageing / Carmen Bras Silva and Delminda Neves -- Bone and muscle ageing / Joana Carvalho, Elisa Marques and Pedro Moreira -- Nutrition and the ageing eye / Angela Carneiro -- Nutrition modulation of skin ageing / Alessandra Marini and Jean Krutmann -- Retarding brain ageing and cognitive decline / Jose Paulo Andrade  -- Science-based anti-ageing nutritional recommendations / Ines Tomada and Jose Paulo Andrade.