| Description |
1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society Ser. ; v.23 |
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Routledge library editions. Health, disease & society ; v. 23.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Diseases Known to be Caused by the Diet -- Contaminants and Food Additives -- When the Dietary Item Itself Contains a Toxicant -- Failure to Utilise an Essential Nutrient -- Food as a Source of Infection -- 2 Diseases Suspected to be Connected with the Diet -- The Reasons for Suspicion -- Techniques of Searching for Dietary Pathogens -- The Search for Toxic Substances in Food |
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3 Possible Sources of Food Toxicants: Plants, Some Foods of Animal Origin, Microorganisms and Food Additives -- Poisonous Plants and Edible Plants -- Enzyme Inhibitors -- The Alkaloids -- Phytic Acid -- Vitamins and Antivitamins -- Goitrogens -- Oestrogens -- Cyanogenetic Glycosides -- Amines which Affect the Blood Pressure -- Toxins Characterised by their Action on Blood Cells -- Three Serious Diseases Related to Single Plant Species -- Carcinogens -- Non-nutritive or Toxic Lipids -- Phytoalexins -- Foods of Animal Origin -- Transfer of Toxins into Milk, Meat and Fish |
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Food Contaminants and Food Additives -- Miscellaneous Factors -- 4 Diet-related Diseases of the Arteries -- Construction of the Artery Wall -- Disorders of the Artery Wall -- Theories of Atherosclerosis -- The Role of Cholesterol in Artery Disease -- Differences Between Fatty Streaks and Fibrous Plaques -- Epidemiology -- What Could Make Milk Atherogenic? The Oestrogen Hypothesis -- Other Theories Linking Cow's Milk with Atherosclerosis -- Cerebrovascular Disease -- Summary -- 5 Cancers of the Digestive Tract -- The Oral Cavity -- The Oesophagus -- The Stomach -- The Small Intestine -- The Liver |
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The Colon and Rectum -- 6 Cancers of the Breast and Prostate -- The Breast -- The Prostate -- 7 Food Allergy and Food Intolerance -- Introduction -- Does Specific Food Intolerance Exist? -- Case Histories -- What Diseases are Caused by Food Intolerance? -- New Causes for Old Diseases: Migraine, Irritable Bowel Syndrome -- What Foods Cause Intolerance? -- Proving Food Intolerance -- Disproving Food Intolerance -- Mechanisms of Food Intolerance -- Successful Diagnosis -- Dangers of Elimination Diets -- Difficulties With, and Prejudices Against Dietary Therapies |
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So How, Finally, is Food Intolerance Diagnosed and Treated? -- Physiology of Digestion -- Allergy -- Immunological Mechanisms -- Mechanisms of Allergy (Hypersensitivity) -- The Role of Allergy in Food Intolerance -- How Common is Food Intolerance? -- Is Food Intolerance Becoming Commoner? -- 'Total Allergy Syndrome' -- Can Food Intolerance be Treated? -- Can Food Intolerance be Prevented? -- 8 Diet and Mental Illness -- Psychological Symptoms Caused by Food-borne Drugs: The Case of Caffeinism -- Mental Illness Arising from Nutritional Deficiencies: The Case of Ascorbic Acid Deficiency |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Neurological Symptoms from Food-borne Poisons: Lathyrism, Ginger Paralysis, Minamata Disease |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Freed, David L. J
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Silverstone, Gerald A
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Rippere, Vicky
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| ISBN |
9781000577945 |
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1000577945 |
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