Dietary Interventions in Gastrointestinal Diseases: Foods, Nutrients, and Dietary Supplements

ISBN-13: 9780128144688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 358 str.

Ronald Ross Watson; Victor R. Preedy

Spis treści

A. Background and overview of diet and GI tract health 1. Plant family, carvacrol and putative protection in gastric cancer 2. The Physics of Fiber in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Laxation, Antidiarrheal, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome 3. Dietary interventions and Inflammatory Bowel Disease 4. The Gastrointestinal system and obesity 5.Constipation: a symptom of chronic food intolerance? 6. Food, Nutrients and Dietary Supplements in Management of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DBGIs), formerly Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs) 7. Vitamin D and Quality of Life of Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome

B. Nutrition and GI tract 8.  Sealing the leaky gut represents a beneficial mechanism of zinc intervention for alcoholic liver disease 9. Exclusive Enteral Nutrition in Children with Crohn Disease: A Focused Nutritional Intervention 10. Gut Microbes in liver diseases: Dietary intervention for promoting hepatic health

C. Probiotics, prebiotics, symbiotics in intestinal functions 11. Feasible options to control colonization of enteric pathogens with designed synbiotics 13. The Role of Prebiotics in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 14. Probiotics from Food Products and Gastrointestinal Health 15. Prebiotics for gastrointestinal infections and acute diarrhea 16. Probiotics and applications to constipation

D. Microbes and GI tract 17. New functional properties of fermented rice bran (FRB) in food processing and intestinal bowel disease model mice 18. Zataria multiflora and gastrointestinal tract disorders

E. Foods and Macro dietary materials in GI function 19. Influence of the cocoa-enriched diet on the intestinal immune system and microbiota 20. High fiber diets in gastrointestinal tract diseases 21. Dietary interventions in fatty liver 22. Rice bran usage in diarrhea 23.  Milk Bacteria and Gastrointestinal Tract: Microbial Composition of Milk 24. Polyphenols in the prevention of Ulcerative colitis: A revisit

O autorze

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. Dr. Preedy is a senior member of King's College London and Director of the Genomics Centre and a member of the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine. Professor Preedy has longstanding academic interests in substance misuse especially in relation to health and well-being. In his career Professor Preedy was Reader at the Addictive Behaviour Centre at The University of Roehampton, and also Reader at the School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London; UCL). Professor Preedy is an extremely experienced book editor, having edited influential works including but not limited to The Handbook of Alcohol Related Pathology, The Neuropathology of Drug Addictions and Substance Misuse, The Handbook of Cannabis and Related Pathologies, The Neuroscience of Cocaine, and upcoming titles The Neuroscience of Alcohol, The Neuroscience of Nicotine, and more (all Elsevier).