Name: Natural Products & Their Active Compounds on Disease Prevention
Brand: Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)
SKU: 9781621001539
Price: 184.59 GBP
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Natural Products & Their Active Compounds on Disease Prevention

Edited by: M Mohamed Essa

Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)

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£283.99

£184.59

Published: 01-Oct-2012
ISBN: 9781621001539

Hardback
514 Pages

Subjects:
Traditional medicine & herbal remedies

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It is well documented that most natural products are enriched with bio-active components that have protective action. There is currently a growing body of evidence that supplementing the human diet with natural products is of major benefit for human health and well-being. Nowadays, the use of complementary/alternative medicine, functional food and especially the consumption of natural products have been increasing rapidly world-wide, mostly because of the supposedly less frequent side effects. Both in conventional and traditional medicines, natural products continue to provide valuable therapeutic agents. The issues regarding the efficacy and safety of currently available modern medicine agents have prompted the search for safer and more effective alternatives. This book focuses on implications of traditional and processed foods for health and disease prevention.

Dr M Mohamed Essa, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Nutrition at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman and holding visiting A/Prof position in Neuropharmacology group, ASAM, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is an editor-in-chief for International Journal of Nutrition, Pharmacology, Neurological Diseases published by Wolters & Kluwer, USA and an involved in editor/reviewer board of various well known journals such as Frontiers in Neuroscience, Biochemie, PLOS one, etc. He is an expert in the field of Nutritional Neuroscience and published 84 papers, 31 book chapters and 7 books (4 published and 3 in press). He has strong international collaborations with institutes in USA, Australia and India. Recently he founded a new foundation named Food and Brain Research Foundation to support research in nutritional neuroscience. He is holding memberships in various international bodies including American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN), International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN), etc. He has received so many awards from local and international bodies and this year one of his book titled Food and Brain health was awarded as best book in the World by GOURMAND Cook Book Awards. He has received many research grants from local and international agencies.