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Dietary Sugar, Salt and Fat in Human Health

  • 1st Edition - March 6, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Harry G. Preuss, Debasis Bagchi
  • Language: English

Divided into four main sections, Dietary Sugar, Salt and Fat in Human Health explores the biochemical, pharmacological and medicinal aspects related to the overindulgence of dietar… Read more

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Description

Divided into four main sections, Dietary Sugar, Salt and Fat in Human Health explores the biochemical, pharmacological and medicinal aspects related to the overindulgence of dietary salt, sugar, and fat, along with possible remedies.

Beginning with a general overview, the text outlines aspects associated with advancing age and human physiology, such as different aspects of insulin resistance, the advancing age phenomenon, central fat accumulation and metabolic perturbations and the role of the modern Western diet and the influence of dietary sugar, salt, and fat, with particular focus on their relation to multiple biochemical pathophysiological pathways. The second section of the book focuses on the roles of dietary sugars and their correlation with the chronic disease epidemic, with an emphasis on carbohydrate metabolism and its biochemistry, GI absorption, the glycemic index and the influence of fructose. The historical background of dietary sugars is discussed alongside Atkin’s hypothesis, and an overview of the correlation between dietary fibre and the glycemic index, including a chapter on sugar addiction. Section three contains an exhaustive review of the influence of dietary salt and its diverse mechanistic aspects, including salt-sensitive hypertension, contribution of two steroid receptor pathways, vascular NO, intrarenal RAAS system and angiotensin. The fourth section highlights the biochemistry of dietary saturated, polyunsaturated and trans fat and its influence on human health and various diseases, and further explores NAFLD and gender specific problems. Chapters in this section also investigate the benefits of the Mediterranean diet as well as myths related to cholesterol.

Collected and carefully organized for researchers in nutrition, physiology, epidemiology, or sensory science, this book will also benefit general practitioners, surgeons, nurses, health professionals and practitioners, and students studying the role of diet in cardiometabolic disorders and disease.

Key features

  • Demonstrates how a healthy lifestyle impacts lifespan
  • Provides a general overview and outlines aspects associated with advancing age and human physiology
  • Focuses on the roles of dietary sugars and their correlation with the chronic disease epidemic
  • Contains an exhaustive review of the influence of dietary salt and its diverse mechanistic aspects
  • Highlights the biochemistry of dietary saturated, polyunsaturated and trans fat and its influence on human health and various diseases

Readership

Researchers in nutrition, physiology, epidemiology, or sensory science; general practitioners, surgeons, nurses, health professionals and practitioners, as well as students studying the role of diet in cardiometabolic disorders and disease

Table of contents

General Background

1. Epidemiological Perspectives of Dietary Sugars, Salts and Fats

2. Advancing Age, Influence of Dietary Sugars, Salts and Fats on Metabolic Disorders and Chronic Diseases

3. Dietary Fat, Salt and Sugar: A clinical perspective of the social catastrophe

4. Influences of Food Ingredients on Enterohepatic Circulation of Bile Acids

5. Anemia: Influence of Dietary Fat, Sugar and Salt on Hemoglobin and Blood Health

Food Behavior, Food Addiction and Metabolic Syndrome

6. Drivers of Food Behavior

7. Focusing the Fight Against Processed Food Addiction (PFA)

8. Dietary Influences on Pediatric Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

9. An Overview of Addiction to Sugar

Dietary Sugar and Health

10. Influence of Dietary Sugars on Blood Pressure Regulation: Historical, Epidemiological, Laboratory, and Clinical Considerations

11. Glycation induced protein aggregation and cellular toxicity: An insight into the disease realm of high dietary sugar intake

12. Probing Various Pro and Con Health Aspects af the Glucose-Insulin System in Non-Diabetics: Focusing on Insulin Resistance and Dietary Implications

13. Evaluating Proposed Surrogates to Estimate Insulin Resistance in Non-Diabetics: Emphasizing Ratio Triglycerides/HDL-Cholesterol vs. Fasting Blood Glucose

14. Associations of high blood sugar with oxidative stress and inflammation in patients with type 2 diabetes

15. Assessing the Triglyceride/Hdl-Cholesterol Ratio as a Surrogate for Insulin Resistance and its Link to the Met-abolic Syndrome in Hispanics and African-Americans

16. The benefit of Indian Jaggery over sugar on human health

17. Linking Fasting Blood Glucose (FBG) Quartiles of Non-Diabetic Volunteers Ages 21-84 Years to Metabolic Syndrome Components

Overindulgence of Dietary Salt

18. Salt-Induced Inappropriate Augmentation of Intrarenal RAAS System: Chronic Renal Diseases

19. Table Salt (Sodium Chloride): Vital Aspects of Metabolism and Blood Pressure Regulation in Health and Disease

20. Nutraceuticals and functional foods in the prevention of Hypertension induced by excessive intake of dietary salt

Dietary Fat and Cholesterol

21. Physiological Role of Cholesterol in Human Body

22. Interplay between dietary sugars and fats and insulin resistance

23. Erythrocyte membranes in metabolic and neurological diseases – supplementation with fatty acids and membranes remodeling

Dietary Fiber, Ketogenic Diets and Benefits

24. Dietary Fiber: A Functional Food Ingredient with Physiological Benefits

25. Ketogenic and low carbohydrate diets in health and disease

26. Dietary Fat, Salt and Sugar - A Teenager’s View

Commentary from the Editors' Desk

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 10, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

HP

Harry G. Preuss

Harry G. Preuss, MD, MACN, CNS, received his BA and MD from Cornell University, trained for three years in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center under Dr. David E. Rogers, studied as a fellow in renal physiology at Cornell University Medical Center under Dr. Robert F. Pitts, and spent two years in clinical and research training in nephrology at Georgetown University Medical Center under Dr. George E. Schreiner. During his training years, he was a special research fellow of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Following give years as an assistant and associate (tenured) professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where he became an established investigator of the American Heart Association, he returned to Georgetown Medical Center. He subsequently performed a 6-month sabbatical in molecular biology at the NIH in the laboratories of Dr. Maurice Burg. Dr. Preuss is now a tenured Professor in 4 departments at Georgetown University Medical Center – Biochemistry, Physiology, Medicine, and Pathology. His bibliography includes over 250 peer-reviewed, original medical research papers, 215 general medical contributions (chapters, review articles, etc.), 7 patents, and more than 260 abstracts. Dr. Preuss has written, edited or co-edited 12 books and 3 symposia published in well-established journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Georgetown University Medical Center

DB

Debasis Bagchi

Debasis Bagchi earned his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1982 and is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy. He also serves as Chief Scientific Officer at Cepham Research Center and holds adjunct faculty appointments. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Research & Development at InterHealth Nutraceuticals (1998–2011) and later Director of Innovation and Clinical Affairs at Iovate Health Sciences (2011–2013).

Dr. Bagchi received the Master of the American College of Nutrition Award in 2010 and has held leadership roles including Past President of the American College of Nutrition and Past Chairman of the International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. He contributes as an NIH peer reviewer and advisor to international health organizations.

A prolific scholar, he has authored over 320 peer-reviewed papers, 30 books, and holds 18 patents. He also serves on editorial boards of numerous scientific journals.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, USA; Chief Scientific Officer, Cepham Research Center, Piscataway, New Jersey; Adjunct Faculty, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, USA

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