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Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs

Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion

  • 1st Edition - April 23, 2016
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy
  • Language: English

Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion brings together experts from around the world working on the cutting edge of research on fruit, vegetable… Read more

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Description

Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion brings together experts from around the world working on the cutting edge of research on fruit, vegetables, and herbs in health promotion. Offering a timely, concise, scientific appraisal of the efficacy of key foods to prevent disease and improve the quality of life, Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion provides valuable evidence-based conclusions and recommendations. This reference text will encourage further research on the potential benefits of fruits and vegetables in health and disease prevention, providing a basis for possible dietary modifications by the government and the public.

Key features

  • Provides insight on bioactive constituents found in fruits and vegetables that can be further studied to improve health and disease resistance or incorporated into other food products and used as alternative medicines and dietary supplements
  • Includes valuable information on how fruits are important sources of bioflavonoids and nonnutritive bioactives that modify body functions
  • Offers a conclusion or summary of evidence at the end of each chapter to enhance understanding of new approaches in the field

Readership

nutrition researchers and food scientists, technologists, food processors and product developers, public health researchers

Table of contents

Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs: Bioactive Foods in Health Promotion

SECTION 1--OVERVIEW OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND HERBS IN HEALTH

1. Socioeconomic inequalities in fruit and vegetable intakes

2. Industrial freezing, cooking and storage differently affect antioxidant nutrients in vegetables

3. Pharmacological properties of some medicinal plants, their components and using fields

4. Nutritional indicators and health aspects of fruit and vegetable consumption in aged adults

5. Diabetes, diabetic complications and flavonoids

6. Curcumin: The epigenetic therapy

7. Nutraceuticalsas therapeutic agents for inflammation

8. Vegetarian diets and disease outcomes

9. Diet and nutrition role in prostate health

SECTION 2--FRUIT AND HEALTH AND DISEASES

10. Advances in the study of the health benefits and mechanism of actions of the pulp and seed of the Amazonian palm fruit, Euterpe oleracea Mart., known as "Açai"

11. Grape bioactives for human health

12. Kiwifruit and health

13. Cocoa--Past medicinal uses, current scientific evidence, and advertised health benefits

14. Pomegranate juice and extract

15. Berries and blood pressure

SECTION 3--VEGETABLES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

16. Poi history, uses and role in health

17. Bioactive potential of two wild edible mushrooms of the Western Ghats of India

SECTION 4--HERBS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

18. Nutrient profile, bioactive components and functional properties of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench)

19. Fruits and vegetable consumption patterns, barriers, and federal nutrition assistance programs in the U.S.

20. Dietary fiber and health: Cardiovascular disease and beyond

21. Fruits, vegetables, and herbs: Bioactive foods promoting wound healing

22. Curcumin in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation in health

23. Curcumin against amyloid pathology in mental health and brain composition

24. Recent developments in using plant derived natural products as tubulin inhibitors for the management of cancer

25. Medicinal and nutritional qualities of Zingiber officinale'

26. Antimicrobials from herbs, spices and plants

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 12, 2016
  • Language: English

About the editors

RW

Ronald Ross Watson

Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson’s career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and School of Medicine, Arizona Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

VP

Victor R. Preedy

Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRSC, FRCPath graduated with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. After gaining his University of London PhD, he received his Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was later awarded his second doctorate (DSc), for his contribution to protein metabolism in health and disease. He is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (Hon) at King’s College Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at King’s College London. He has Honorary Professorships at the University of Hull, and the University of Suffolk. Professor Preedy was the Founding Director and then long-term Director of the Genomics Centre at King’s College London from 2006 to 2020. Professor Preedy has been awarded fellowships of the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, the Royal Institute of Public Health, the Royal Society for Public Health, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Medicine. He carried out research when attached to the National Heart Hospital (part of Imperial College London), The School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London) and the MRC Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated with international research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, USA, and Germany. To his credit, Professor Preedy has published over 750 articles, which includes peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, abstracts and symposium presentations, reviews and edited books.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, King’s College Hospital, London, UK; Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, UK; Visiting Professor, University of Hull, UK

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