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This volume collects information on the association between functional and chronic diseases. The burden of escalating chronic diseases is discussed in the first chapter, and the remaining fourteen chapters summarize the effect of functional foods on a range of chronic diseases.
List of contents
1. Global trends in growth of Chronic diseases 2. Importance of Integrative Health Sciences in the therapy of chronic diseases 3. Safety and Efficacy Determination in functional foods and nutraceuticals 4. Global burden of disease, the heavy cost of sun deprivation: implications for mass food fortification with vitamin D 5. Functional vegetables and medicinal uses: Cure and Curse 6. Dietary supplements and functional foods in the management of endocrine disorders 7. Changes in the regulation of energy metabolism in chronic diseases using functional foods and Nutraceuticals 8. Functional foods for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases including hypertension 9. Functional Foods and Natural Products for Obesity Management 10. Non-commercial Plant-based Edible Oil for Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases 11. Oral health challenges during chronic diseases: prevention and treatment using functional foods and Nutraceuticals 12. Urogenital system disorders and functional foods and Nutraceuticals 13. Functional foods and Nutraceutical and Respiratory Diseases 14. Strategies using functional food and nutraceutical to prevent and treat arthritis 15. Functional foods of Polyphenolics for Alzheimer's Disease
Summary
This volume collects information on the association between functional and chronic diseases. The burden of escalating chronic diseases is discussed in the first chapter, and the remaining fourteen chapters summarize the effect of functional foods on a range of chronic diseases.
