Short description:

Volume I focuses on the applications and clinical evidence of the use of functional foods and nutraceuticals for chronic diseases; and Volume II discusses the molecular mechanisms, and the researches on the role of functional foods/nutraceuticals in preventing and treating chronic diseases through epigenetic modulation.

Long description:

While disease is inevitable in humankind, the current century has been burdened with many chronic diseases, most of which are lifestyle mediated and, which in part can be controlled by consuming foods with specific functions. Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals for Chronic Diseases: Two Volume Set explores the role functional foods and nutraceuticals have in the development and maintenance of health, and how these can assist the body in its battle against inflammation and chronic illnesses.

Volume I focuses on the clinical evidence of functional foods and nutraceuticals and chronic diseases; and Volume II discusses the molecular mechanisms, and the researches on the role of functional foods/nutraceuticals in preventing and treating chronic diseases through epigenetic modulation.

Contributors hail from different geographical locations around the world and have many years of research and scholarly experience in functional foods, nutraceuticals, and biology. These volumes are a great reference for practitioners, scientists, and clinicians in the management of chronic diseases.

Table of Contents:

VOLUME I. 1. Global trends in growth of Chronic diseases 2. Importance of Integrative Health Sciences in the therapy of chronic diseases 3. Safety and Efficacy Determination in functional foods and nutraceuticals 4. Global burden of disease, the heavy cost of sun deprivation: implications for mass food fortification with vitamin D 5. Functional vegetables and medicinal uses: Cure and Curse 6. Dietary supplements and functional foods in the management of endocrine disorders 7. Changes in the regulation of energy metabolism in chronic diseases using functional foods and Nutraceuticals 8. Functional foods for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases including hypertension 9. ?Functional Foods and Natural Products for Obesity Management 10. Non-commercial Plant-based Edible Oil for Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases 11. Oral health challenges during chronic diseases: prevention and treatment using functional foods and Nutraceuticals 12. Urogenital system disorders and functional foods and Nutraceuticals 13. Functional foods and Nutraceutical and Respiratory Diseases 14. Strategies using functional food and nutraceutical to prevent and treat arthritis 15. Functional foods of Polyphenolics for Alzheimer?s Disease. VOLUME II. 1. Role of Epigenetics in Human Diseases: Bioactive Food Peptides for the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases through Modulation of the Epigenome 2. The Interactions between Functional Foods, Epigenetics, and Chronic Diseases 3. Immunological Compromises in Chronic Diseases and Use of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals 4. Molecular Mechanisms to understand chronic diseases and Immune Function: application of functional foods and Nutraceutical Interventions 5. Functional food and obesity and metabolic syndrome 6. Epigenetics and chronic diseases, role of functional foods in preventing tumorigenesis 7. Curcumin as a functional food in cancer 8. Integration of Biotechnology & Nanotechnology in chronic diseases: Interventions with functional foods and Nutraceuticals 9. Nanodelivery Of Bioactive Food Components in Chronic Diseases 10. Understanding the mechanistic pathways against neurodegenerations with focus on Ayurvedic point of view use of rasayanas (Ayurvedic functional foods and Nutraceuticals) 11. Inflammatory diseases and prevention and treatment using functional foods and nutraceuticals 12. Role of functional food in the prevention of Alzheimer?s disease: A hope of neuroprotection
13. Gastrointestinal Tract and Digestion challenges in chronic diseases and applications of functional foods and nutraceuticals 14. Benefits of Nuts in the Management of Chronic Diseases