During the past decade, a significant amount of research has been conducted on phytopharmaceuticals. Today, a growing body of evidence demonstrates the efficacy of a wide variety of natural products and affirms their potential in the treatment of cancer.
Phytopharmaceuticals in Cancer Chemoprevention focuses on the role of natural supplements in cancer prevention and therapy. The first section covers cancer epidemiology, as well as cancer statistics, current therapies, and potential toxicities involved with existing cancer drugs. The second section begins by discussing the pathophysiology...

With mounting evidence regarding the role of poor nutrition in the development of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, it is no secret that appropriate nutrition is crucial to optimal health. Achieving the correct balance of elements provides the body with the ability to adapt to a shifting and often hazardous environment. Never is this capability more important than when a wound is sustained and the body's first line of defense, the skin, is breached.

Nutrition and Wound Healing describes the importance of several nutrients, both macronutrients and micronutrients, and...

This book offers a timely, comprehensive reference on obesity, which has been declared a worldwide epidemic by the World Health Organization. The new edition presents an in-depth treatise on the origins, prevention, and treatment of obesity. Divided into eight exhaustive sections, it includes several new chapters on food addiction; stress; nutritional epigenomics; cardiovascular dysfunction and hypertension; joint pain; bone health and osteoarthritis; obesity and dieting; exercise physiology; new supplements to combat obesity; and new directions in childhood obesity research.