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Diet, Inflammation, and Health

  • 1st Edition - April 27, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: James R. Hebert, Lorne J Hofseth
  • Language: English

Diet, Inflammation, and Health introduces concepts of inflammation, the role of acute inflammatory responses in good health, and the association of chronic systemic inflam… Read more

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Description

Diet, Inflammation, and Health introduces concepts of inflammation, the role of acute inflammatory responses in good health, and the association of chronic systemic inflammation with mental distress, cognitive decline, and chronic diseases, ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer. The book also describes the pathophysiology of inflammation and its effects on insulin insensitivity and blunted immune response to carcinogenesis. Researchers and allied health care professionals working in dietetics and medicine, as well as students studying related fields will benefit from this reference and its recommendations on areas where future research is needed.

Key features

  • Addresses the role of acute inflammatory responses in achieving and maintaining good health
  • Covers the association of chronic system inflammation with various conditions and diseases
  • Describes the effect of inflammation on mechanisms ranging from insulin insensitivity and immune response to carcinogenesis

Readership

Researchers and allied health care professionals working in dietetics and medicine, as well as students studying related fields

Table of contents

1. What is Inflammation? Why is it Important?

2. History of Nutrition and Inflammation

3. Nutrition, Inflammation and Immune Response

4. Resolving Acute Inflammation; How acute inflammation resolves and What Happens when Inflammation Goes Haywire

5. Diet and Chronic, Systemic, Low-Grade Inflammation

6. What constitutes an anti-inflammatory diet? How does this contrast with a pro-inflammatory diet?

7. The Role of Nutritional Epidemiology and Other Methods in Describing The Diet-Inflammation Link

8. Diet, Inflammation and the “itises” (including musculoskeletal and gastrointestinal issues)

9. Diet, Inflammation and Cancer

10. Diet, Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease

11. Diet, Inflammation and Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

12. Inflammatory Potential of Diet on Mental Disorders and Psychosocial Stress

13. Inflammatory Potential of Diet and Aging - Including Frailty, Bone Health (density/fractures), Cataract, Frailty, and Cognitive Decline

14. Inflammatory Potential of Diet and Health Disorders Among Children

15. Inflammatory Potential of Diet and Other Aspects of Lifestyle including Physical Activity

16. Inflammatory Potential of Diet and Circadian Rhythms

17. Inflammatory potential of diet in relation to other health outcomes (e.g., sleep apnea/quality, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, NAFLD, CKD)

18. Summary of Where We Are and Implications for Future Research

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 28, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

JH

James R. Hebert

James R. Hébert, MSPH, ScD, Health Sciences Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Founding Director of the South Carolina Statewide Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the University of South Carolina, also is Founder, President and Scientific Director of Connecting Health Innovations LLC (CHI). Dr. Hébert received his master’s degree in Environmental Health from the University of Washington and his doctorate in Nutritional Epidemiology from Harvard University. Among his many honors and awards, in 2017 he was named to the NIH Nutrition Research Task Force Thought Leaders Panel. One of the most well published and highly cited research scientists in the world, Dr. Hébert is well known for his research into the role of diet in health and for developing the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII®), which is revolutionizing research into chronic systemic inflammation as a cause of numerous chronic diseases ranging from diabetes to depression, cardiovascular disease, and many cancers.
Affiliations and expertise
Health Sciences Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Founding Director, South Carolina Statewide Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of South Carolina; Founder, President and Scientific Director, Connecting Health Innovations LLC (CHI)

LH

Lorne J Hofseth

Lorne J. Hofseth, is a professor, interim associate dean for research at the Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences (DDBS) College of Pharmacy, and director at the Center for Colon Cancer Research, at the University of South Carolina. He completed his BS and PhD degrees from Simon Fraser University, and postdoctoral fellowship in Michigan State University and the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Hofseth has published over 100 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, with research interests revolving around chronic inflammation and cancer. He has dedicated his career to identifying novel targets and therapeutic approaches to suppressing inflammation with minimal toxicity, carrying out clinical trials to examine the role of antioxidants in suppressing systemic inflammation, and improve overall health.

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