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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825952303321

Titolo

Dietary reference intakes : proposed definition and plan for review of dietary antioxidants and related compounds / / a report of the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes and its Panel on Dietary Antioxidants and Related Compounds, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1998

ISBN

0-309-18471-1

1-280-18644-5

9786610186440

0-309-57017-4

0-585-08580-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 13 pages)

Collana

The compass series

Soggetti

Antioxidants

Food - Composition

Reference values (Medicine)

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.

Nota di contenuto

Dietary Reference Intakes -- Copyright -- REVIEWERS -- Contents -- Dietary Reference Intakes: Proposed Definition and Plan for Review of Dietary Antioxidants and … -- INTRODUCTION -- TOWARD A DEFINITION OF DIETARY ANTIOXIDANT -- Possible Health Benefits -- PROPOSED DEFINITION -- Presence in Human Diets -- Measurement of Quantities in Foods -- Decreased Adverse Effects of Some ROS and RNS -- Role of ROS and RNS in Health and Disease -- Antioxidant Mechanisms -- Evidence for Antioxidant Activity -- FOOD COMPONENTS THAT WILL BE REVIEWED BY THE PANEL -- Beta-Carotene and Other Carotenoids -- Vitamin C -- Vitamin E -- Selenium -- FOOD COMPONENTS THAT WILL NOT BE REVIEWED BY THE PANEL -- Phenols and Polyphenols -- Other Proposed Dietary Antioxidants -- SUMMARY -- BETA-CAROTENE AND OTHER CAROTENOIDS -- VITAMIN C -- VITAMIN E -- Appendix  Acknowledgments.