Functional foods : the connection between nutrition, health, and food science / / edited by Leah Coles, PhD

• Pubblicazione: Toronto ; ; [Waretown] New Jersey : , : Apple Academic Press, , [2014]; �2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxii, 387 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 613.2
• Soggetto topico: Functional foods
• Persona (resp. second.): ColesLeah
• Note generali: Chapters in this book were previously published in various formats and in various places.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: part I. The connection between nutrition and health -- part II. Functional foods : the connection between health and food science.
• Sommario/riassunto: This new book presents a variety of important research on functional foods-foods 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 2 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Functional Foods
• ISBN: 0-429-09078-1; 1-4822-3275-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910132244803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II