Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Nutrition

This book offers an insightful exploration into the relationship between diet and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), aiming to address a crucial question: Can dietary interventions serve as effective preventative and therapeutic measures for patients with MS? Delving into this question, the book examines various nutritional components and regimens, shedding light on their potential impacts on the progression, relapse rate, and development of MS. It offers readers valuable insights into how dietary choices can influence the management of this condition.

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Through the ten chapters it offers in the first four a comprehensive state of art of the bases of pediatric obesity in order to support the following ones with new and proved clinical issues, as recent complementary features on anthropometry and food intake and new safe treatments.

This books discusses comorbidities, trajectories, prevention, extended periods and treatment. For effective prevention, clues are given to routinely...

This edited book provides an overview of existing and emerging gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) based methods for the authentication and fraud detection in all major food groups and beverages.

Split in four parts, the book opens with a comprehensive introduction into the GC/MS technique and a summary of relevant statistical and mathematical models for data analysis. The main parts focus on the authentication of the main food groups (cereals, dairy products, fruit, meat, etc.) and beverages (e.g., coffee, tea, wine and beer). The chapters in these sections follow a...

There is a growing body of knowledge that simplified diets (high fat, high sugar, low fiber) negatively affect aspects of gut barrier function including increased susceptibility to transient and persistent colonization of extra-intestinal pathogenic bacteria, changes to gut barrier morphology, innate and acquired immunity and pro-inflammatory state of the gut. The book discusses natural products such as polyphenols, anthocyanins, flavonols, proanthocyanidins, and hydrolyzable tannins as a whole food approach or as supplements to simplified diets, and the role they play in modulating these...