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Ongoing concern with diseases tied to poor lifestyle choices such as smoking, poor diet, alcohol consumption, and stress, led to an international symposium attended by leading experts. To bring attention to this major health concern, three of those experts invited prominent symposium participants to contribute to a book. Molecular Interventions in Lifestyle-Related Diseases, the result of that effort, addresses the molecular basis and cellular effects of free-radical and lifestyle-related diseases; it discusses mechanisms of immune suppression and other disease factors related to oxidative stress; and examines the therapeutic and prevention effects of specific nutrients, including flavonoids and polyphenols, and other phytonutrients.
List of contents
Free Radicals, Lifestyle-Related Diseases, and Their Protection. Free Radicals, Brain Diseases, and Their Protection. Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, Micronutrients, and Pharmacological Interventions.
About the author
Midori Hiramatsu, Toshikazu Yoshikawa, Lester Packer
Summary
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, officially recognizing that various risk factors for disease are present in our environment, has proposed the concept of lifestyle-related diseases. These include those diseases that are tied to such lifestyle choices as excessive alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, exposure to stress, and poor diet.
Ongoing attention to this issue led to an International Symposium on Free Radicals and Health: Molecular Interventions and Protection of Lifestyle-Related Diseases bringing together the top experts in that area. With the belief that the recognition of the occurrence of risk factors and their identification are important to overcoming lifestyle-related diseases, three of those experts invited prominent participants at the symposium to contribute to a book. Molecular Interventions in Lifestyle-Related Diseases is the result of that effort.
This book is divided into three main sections:
Free Radicals, Lifestyle-Related Diseases, and Their Protection
Free Radicals, Brain Diseases, and Their Protection
Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, Micronutrients, and Pharmacological Interventions
When bad lifestyle choices cause oxidants and free radicals to have a negative influence on cell signaling and gene expression, lifestyle-related diseases are set into motion, which in turn lead to further oxidative stress.
Molecular Interventions in Lifestyle-Related Diseases addresses the molecular basis of free radicals and lifestyle-related diseases and preventive/therapeutic approaches including the use of nutraceuticals, functional foods, and pharmacological interventions. Each section contains several chapters addressing critical molecular mechanisms, therapeutic interventions, and other issues of relevance to human health that will be of interest to students and researchers in the health professions including nutritional and environmental scientists, molecular and cell biologi
