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: 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)

Product Description: In Japan, the diagnosis and effects of treatment of cancer patients is tracked and evaluated through a registry of the patients. Rather than a demographic or population-based tracking, the Japanese medical community has developed a number of site-specific cancer registries...read more

Product Description: Experts from Europe, Japan and the United States have contributed to this in-depth volume on digestive disease pathology. Each chapter contains numerous electron micrographs, often supplemented byline drawings, and extensive references to the literature...read more

Product Description: Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium of the Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund, Tokyo, 1987. The relationships between specific causes of cancer and genetic and environmental factors are complex. These contributions present epidemiologic studies that implicate certain chemicals, vi...read more