Bioactive Food As Dietary Interventions for Liver and - Gastrointestinal Diseas

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease provides valuable insights for those seeking nutritional treatment options for those suffering from liver and/or related gastrointestinal disease including Crohn's, allergies, and colitis among others. Information is presented on a variety of foods including herbs, fruits, soy and olive oil. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers in nutrition, nephrology, and gastroenterology.

• Addresses the most positive results from dietary interventions using bioactive foods to impact diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal system, including reduction of inflammation, improved function, and nutritional efficiency
• Presents a wide range of liver and gastrointestinal diseases and provides important information for additional research
• Associated information can be used to understand other diseases, which share common etiological pathways

List of contents

The Alkaline Way in Digestive Health
Functional Assessment of Gastrointestinal Health
Antioxidants in inflammatory bowel disease; Ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease
Omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and inflammatory bowel diseases
Alcohol and gastrointestinal tract function
Dangerous Herbal Weight Loss Supplements
Milk bacteria: Role in treating GI allergies
Nutritional functions of polysaccharides from soy sauce in the gastrointestinal tract
Nutrition, Dietary Fibers and Cholelithiasis. Cholelithiasis, lipid lowering
Indian medicinal plants and spices in the prevention and treatment of ulcerative colitis
Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) an ancient remedy and modern drug in gastrointestinal disorders
The role of microbiota and probiotics on the gastrointestinal health: prevention of pathogen infections
Probiotics and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Antioxidant, luteolin exhibits anti-inflammatory effect in in vitro gut-inflammation model
HUMAN MICROBIOME AND DISEASES: A METAGENOMIC APPROACH
Folate production by lactic acid bacteria
Probiotics against digestive tract viral infections
Probiotic bacteria as Mucosal immune system adjuvant
Medicinal plants as remedies for gastrointestinal ailments and diseases: a review
Review on the gastrointestinal protective effects of the indegeneous Indian medicinal plant Bael (Aegle marmelos Correa)
Gastrointestinal and Hepatoprotective effects of Ocimum sanctum L. Syn (Holy basil or Tulsi): validation of the ethnomedicinal observation
Turmeric (Curcuma longa L) the golden curry spice as a non-toxic gastroprotective agent: a review
Nutrition, Dietary Fibers and Cholelithiasis: Apple pulp, fibers, clinical trials
Gastrointestinal protective effects of Eugenia jambolana LAM. (black plum) and its phytochemicals: a concise review
Plant sterols and artery disease
Preventing The Diet Induced Disease Epidemic: An Overview
Prickly Pear Cactus ("nopal”) for the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus
Carotenoids: Liver diseases and prevention
Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Early Life Nutritional Programming: Lessons from the Avian Model
Prebiotics, Probiotics and Health Promotion: an Overview
GASTRO-PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF BIOACTIVE FOODS
ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF ANTHOCYANINS IN COMMON LEGUME GRAINS
Antioxidant capacity of pomegranate juices and their role in its biological activities
Anti-Inflammatory Actions of Pycnogenol: Diabetes and Arthritis
Dietary Bioactive Functional Polyphenols in Chronic Lung Diseases
Antioxidant capacity of medicinal plants
Chinese herbal products in the prevention and treatment of liver disease
Bioactive Foods and Supplements for protection against Liver Diseases
The role of prebiotics in GI and liver diseases
The role of curcumin in GI and liver diseases
TLRs and intestinal immune tolerance
Psychological mechanisms of dietary change in adulthood
Biochemical Mechanisms of Fatty Liver and Role of Bioactive Foods: Fatty Liver, Diagnosis, Nutrition Therapy, Herbs
Hepatoprotective effects of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (ginger): a review
Betel leaf (Piper betel Linn), a wrongly maligned medicinal and dietary plant possess potent gastrointestinal and hepatoprotective effects
Hepatoprotective effects of Picroliv, the ethanolic extract fraction of the endangered Indian medicinal plant Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex. Benth
Scientific validation of the hepatoprotective effects of the Indian gooseberry (Emblica officinalis Gaertn): a review
Biochemical Mechanisms of Fatty Liver and Bioactive Foods: Wild foods, Bioactive Foods, Clinical trials in Hepatoprotection
Phytochemicals are effective in the prevention of ethanol-induced hepatotoxicity: preclinical observations

About the author

Ronald R. Watson, Ph.D., attended the University of Idaho but graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, with a degree in chemistry in 1966. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Michigan State University in 1971. His postdoctoral schooling in nutrition and microbiology was completed at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he gained 2 years of postdoctoral research experience in immunology and nutrition. From 1973 to 1974 Dr. Watson was assistant professor of immunology and performed research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He was assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the Indiana University Medical School from 1974 to 1978 and associate professor at Purdue University in the Department of Food and Nutrition from 1978 to 1982. In 1982 Dr. Watson joined the faculty at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the School of Medicine. He is currently professor of health promotion sciences in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health. Dr. Watson is a member of national and international nutrition, immunology, cancer, and alcoholism research societies. His patents are for antioxidant polyphenols in several dietary supplements including passion fruit peel extract, with more pending. This results from more than 10 years of polyphenol research in animal models and human clinical trials. He had done research on mouse AIDS and immune function for 20 years. For 30 years he was funded by NIH and Foundations to study dietary supplements in health promotion. Dr. Watson has edited more than 0 books on nutrition, dietary supplements and over-the-counter agents, and drugs of abuse, as scientific reference books. He has published more than 500 research and review articles.

Summary

Provides insights for those seeking nutritional treatment options for those suffering from liver and/or related gastrointestinal disease including Crohn's, allergies, and colitis among others. This book serves as a resource for researchers in nutrition, nephrology, and gastroenterology. It presents a range of liver and gastrointestinal diseases.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Watson, Ronald Ross (EDT)/ Preedy Watson
• Assisted by: Victor Preedy (Editor), Victor R. Preedy (Editor), Ronald Ross Watson (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.10.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9780123971548
• ISBN: 978-0-12-397154-8
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: Academic Press; Bioactive Foods in Chronic Disease States; Academic Press; Bioactive Foods in Chronic Disease States
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine