Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease: Bioactive Foods in Chronic Disease States

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease provides valuable insights for those seeking nutritional treatment options for those suffering from liver and/or related gastrointestinal disease including Crohn's, allergies, and colitis among others. Information is presented on a variety of foods including herbs, fruits, soy and olive oil. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers in nutrition, nephrology, and gastroenterology. * Addresses the most positive results from dietary interventions using bioactive foods to impact diseases of the liver and gastrointestinal system, including reduction of inflammation, improved function, and nutritional efficiency * Presents a wide range of liver and gastrointestinal diseases and provides important information for additional research * Associated information can be used to understand other diseases, which share common etiological pathways INDICE: The Alkaline Way in Digestive Health Functional Assessment of Gastrointestinal Health Antioxidants in inflammatory bowel disease; Ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease Omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and inflammatory bowel diseases Alcohol and gastrointestinal tract function Dangerous Herbal Weight Loss Supplements Milk bacteria: Role in treating GI allergies Nutritional functions of polysaccharides from soy sauce in the gastrointestinal tract Nutrition, Dietary Fibers and Cholelithiasis. Cholelithiasis, lipid lowering Indian medicinal plants and spices in the prevention and treatment of ulcerative colitis Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) an ancient remedy and modern drug in gastrointestinal disorders The role of microbiota and probiotics on the gastrointestinal health: prevention of pathogen infections Probiotics and Irritable Bowel Syndrome Antioxidant, luteolin exhibits anti-inflammatory effect in in vitro gut-inflammation model HUMAN MICROBIOME AND DISEASES: A METAGENOMIC APPROACH Folate production by lactic acid bacteria Probiotics against digestive tract viral infections Probiotic bacteria as Mucosal immune system adjuvant Medicinal plants as remedies for gastrointestinal ailments and diseases: a review Review on the gastrointestinal protective effects of the indegeneous Indian medicinal plant Bael (Aegle marmelos Correa) Gastrointestinal and Hepatoprotective effects of Ocimum sanctum L. Syn (Holy basil or Tulsi): validation of the ethnomedicinal observation Turmeric (Curcuma longa L) the golden curry spice as a non-toxic gastroprotective agent: a review Nutrition, Dietary Fibers and Cholelithiasis: Apple pulp, fibers, clinical trials Gastrointestinal protective effects of Eugenia jambolana LAM.  (black plum) and its phytochemicals: a concise review Plant sterols and artery disease Preventing The Diet Induced Disease Epidemic: An Overview Prickly Pear Cactus (nopal?) for the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus Carotenoids: Liver diseases and prevention Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Early Life Nutritional Programming: Lessons from the Avian Model Prebiotics, Probiotics and Health Promotion: an Overview GASTRO-PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF BIOACTIVE FOODS ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF ANTHOCYANINS IN COMMON LEGUME GRAINS Antioxidant capacity of pomegranate juices and their role in its biological activities Anti-Inflammatory Actions of Pycnogenol: Diabetes and Arthritis Dietary Bioactive Functional Polyphenols in Chronic Lung Diseases Antioxidant capacity of medicinal plants Chinese herbal products in the prevention and treatment of liver disease Bioactive Foods and Supplements for protection against Liver Diseases The role of prebiotics in GI and liver diseases The role of curcumin in GI and liver diseases TLRs and intestinal immune tolerance Psychological mechanisms of dietary change in adulthood Biochemical Mechanisms of Fatty Liver and Role of Bioactive Foods: Fatty Liver, Diagnosis, Nutrition Therapy, Herbs Hepatoprotective effects of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (ginger): a review Betel leaf (Piper betel Linn), a wrongly maligned medicinal and dietary plant possess potent gastrointestinal and hepatoprotective effects Hepatoprotective effects of Picroliv, the ethanolic extract fraction of the endangered Indian medicinal plant Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex. Benth Scientific validation of the hepatoprotective effects of the Indian gooseberry (Emblica officinalis Gaertn): a review Biochemical Mechanisms of Fatty Liver and Bioactive Foods: Wild foods, Bioactive Foods, Clinical trials in Hepatoprotection Phytochemicals are effective in the prevention of ethanol-induced hepatotoxicity: preclinical observations

• ISBN: 978-0-12-397154-8
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 802
• Fecha Publicación: 20/10/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés