| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 381 pages) : illustrations |
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CAB books |
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CAB books
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| Contents |
List of Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Olive Oil in Mediterranean Food; 2 Chemical Composition, Types and Characteristics of Olive Oil; 3 Total Antioxidant Capacity of Olive Oils; 4 Effect of Frying and Thermal Oxidation on Olive Oil and Food Quality; 5 Antioxidant Properties of Olive Oil Phenolics; 6 Olive Oil and Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress: Studies on Adriamycin Toxicity, Physical Exercise and Ageing; 7 Epidemiology of Olive Oil and Cardiovascular Disease; 8 Olive Oil, Blood Lipids and Postprandial Lipaemia |
| Summary |
Discussions on the various health promoting and disease preventing properties of olive oils and its components are presented, with focus on cardiovascular diseases, neoplasms and diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Also, chapters on the chemical composition and physicochemical properties of olive oils, including the various methods used to analyse them, are presented |
| Analysis |
olijfolie |
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olive oil |
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gezondheidsbevordering |
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health promotion |
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gezondheidsbescherming |
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health protection |
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Human Nutrition and Health |
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Plant Products |
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Humane voeding en gezondheid |
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Plantaardige producten |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Olive oil -- Health aspects
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Plant Oils -- therapeutic use
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Dietary Fats, Unsaturated -- therapeutic use
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Nutrition
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Olea -- physiology
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Nutrition.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diets.
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MEDICAL -- Nutrition.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Nutrition.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Food Content Guides.
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Man.
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Analytical methods.
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Cardiovascular diseases.
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Chemical composition.
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Diabetes mellitus.
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Diet.
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Human diseases.
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Metabolic disorders.
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Neoplasms.
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Nutritive value.
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Olive oil.
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Physicochemical properties.
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Olive oil -- Health aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Quiles, José L
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Ramírez-Tortosa, M. Carmen
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Yaqoob, Parveen
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| LC no. |
2005023301 |
| ISBN |
184593072X |
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9781845930721 |
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1280735988 |
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9781280735981 |
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9786610735983 |
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6610735980 |
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