| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 525 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
COVER; FOREWORD; EDITORIAL; Contents; Some Excerpts from the Articles of Great Scientists on the use of Herbal Products in Health and Diseases; Dietary Fiber and Essential Macronutrient; Sources of Nutraceuticals and the Chemistry of their Functions; Terpenes, Carotenoids and Phytosterols; Phenolics of the Functional Foods; Nutraceuticals of Alliums; Nutraceuticals Vs Diseases; Role of Allium Principles as Anticancer Agents; Cancer and Ageing -- Causation and Prevention; Laboratory Experiment; Certain Functional Foods in the Prevention of Diseases; Index |
| Summary |
This book accounts for various sources of nutraceuticals and dietary fibers in our diet and their systematic mechanism of actions independent of the time old components of the so called balanced diet of yesteryears. Further these nutraceuticals and dietary fibers function as agents for detoxifications, reducing blood cholesterol and preventing CHD and cancer. Many physicians of various systems are of the opinion that diet is medicine, but only a few are able to explain the role of various nutraceuticals as immunomodulators (in a way as oral vaccines), antioxidants, antivirals, anticarcinogenic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Functional foods.
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Fiber in human nutrition.
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Medicine, Preventive.
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Preventive Medicine
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Fiber in human nutrition
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Functional foods
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Medicine, Preventive
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
128280524X |
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9781282805248 |
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9789350433508 |
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9350433508 |
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