Product Description: In recent years, due to increasing demands of consumers for alternative and preventive health management, the market for supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods has expanded exponentially. Food Factors in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention brings together expert scientists in chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, pharmacology, and related medical sciences from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Europe, and North America to addresss important food factors which have shown effects in health promotion and disease prevention...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book focuses on two major multidisciplinary topics on the Maillard reaction, that is food science and medical science. The former covers the reaction mechanism and kinetics and analytical aspect of the Maillard reaction, food technology, flavour chemistry, ecology and antioxidants, whereas the latter covers in vivo reaction of the Maillard reaction affecting human health and disease with a special focus on the significance of AGE in AGE-induced disease processes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The two volumes cover research on food factors of a variety of physiological significance. The actual goal is to establish a role of food factors in disease prevention and health promotion from the scientific base. The two volumes present research data and reviews by numerous experts and should be of special interest and relevance to all who are concerned with food factors in disease prevention and health promotion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The second of two volumes on the role of functional foods in the prevention of various human diseases, this book focuses on the role medicinal plants, seafood, and processed food play in prevention. The book contains the latest scientific research and the impact of this research on policy and regulation of functional foods...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Describes phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables and their effects on health. Features chapters on the isolation, purification , and identification of phytochemicals in foods. Examines the molecular modulation of tumor development in experimental animal models by phytochemcals from fruits and vegetables...read more

Product Description: Examines the health effects of phytochemicals in beverages, spices, and Oriental herbs. Features chapters on the suppression of active oxygen species by natural antioxidants. Reviews analysis and biological activity of phytochemicals in ginger, licorice, sesame, turmeric, and other Oriental medicinal plants...read more