Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is the edible bulb from a plant of the Allium genus, commonly used for flavouring in cooking and for its beneficial effe...

At present, two important factors contributing to diseases are environmental and genetic factors. The gene is a well defined component distributing...

Soybeans are greatly used in many foods, such as tofu, soy milk and yogurt, and it plays an important role as a functional food in the health and p...

Children become overweight for a variety of reasons. The most common causes are genetic factors, lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating patter...

Gluten and gluten-related proteins (prolamin and glutelin) may be present in several cereals, such as wheat, rye, barley, oat and the derivatives o...

Gluten-free diet (GFD) is the cornerstone treatment for celiac disease (CD). This condition is a chronic, systemic, autoimmune disorder caused by a...

This book reviews the role of bioactive compounds in grape seed and their beneficial effects. Among the 11 chapters, the authors also discuss the c...

The grape is one of the most important horticultural crops in the world with an annual production greater than 77 million tons in the year 2013. Th...

This book discusses the values of green tea as having antioxidant benefits as well as healing attributes. A particular emphasis is placed on the As...

Guava (Psidium guajava L.), which is considered a native to southern Mexico into Central America extends throughout the South America, Europa, Afri...

Nutritional assessment has been considered as a cornerstone of nutritional diagnosis, management, intervention and dietary planning. Specific crite...

This Handbook provides an introduction to nutrition, nutrients, dietitian and nutritional genomics. In addition, this handbook also addresses issue...

Nutritional biochemistry is one of the academic foundations that make up nutritional sciences, a discipline that encompasses the knowledge of nutri...

The 6-carbon lactone known as ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is an important water-soluble vitamin. It is essential for preserving optimal health and it...

From two leading authorities in clinical nutrition, one a medical doctor and the other a naturopathic doctor, comes this fundamental text on clinic...

Healthy Food: Perspectives, Availability and Consumption first explores the pathological form of healthy eating, orthorexia nervosa. Although ortho...

Healthy Lifestyles and Healthy Eating opens with a study wherein a review is conducted to examine non-Hispanic blacks' dietary patterns to determin...

Heat stress can be defined as build-up of body heat generated either internally by muscle use or externally by the environment. Heat stress induces...

Research on nutrition has grown into one of the most challenging and innovative health-related scientific disciplines during the past decade. New a...

Human malnutrition is a serious health problem worldwide. Traditionally, malnutrition is referred to as under-nutrition. However, during the last t...

For more than 50 years, the United States, which accounts for about half of global food aid supplies, has played an important role in alleviating m...

Iodine is an important trace element and an essential substrate for the synthesis of thyroid hormones. Iodine deficiency can lead to goiter, hypter...

In the human body, iron is present in all cells and has several vital functions: as a carrier of oxygen to the tissues from the lungs in the form o...

Text in French. Coffee -- has both beneficial and harmful effects on the nervous and cardiovascular systems, the digestive and respiratory systems ...