Robert E. C. Wildman, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
The Handbook of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods presents an up-to-date and comprehensive review of this rapidly growing field for nutrition. This book covers the history of nutraceuticals, their connection to preventing diseases, and marketing issues. Well researched, the book provides an easy-to-follow delineation of interorgan and intracellular activities of these substances. It contains figures that illustrate the molecular structure and design as well as metabolic pathways, providing you with an in-depth guide to nearly 200 nutraceutical compounds. The Handbook of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods explores the cause-and-effect relationship between nutraceuticals and health.
Contents - Abridged: Provides over 100 tables with concise information on nutraceutical sources and functional properties • Includes over 100 figures presenting nutraceutical molecular design, metabolic pathways, and function • Offers nearly 3000 citations of literature relevant to nutraceuticals and functional foods • Supplies easy-to-follow interorgan and intracellular activities of substances • Discusses and graphically represents roughly 200 nutraceutical compounds.
568 pages, 2000, Hardbound - ISBN 0-8493-8734-5
Catalog #205
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