num_pages: 340
description: This text responds to the growing interest, by medical researchers and the population, in diets of the Mediterranean type. It discusses the various foods of the Mediterranean region, including their physiological and epidemiological effects. These foods include cereals, legumes, vegetables and fruits, oils and dairy products. The volume also compares and contrasts current eating habits in various Mediterranean countries. Chapters written by expert contributors cover the medical and epidemiolgical aspects of the Mediterranean diets as they relate to major degenerative diseases including hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and cancer. The book should be of interest to nutritionists, dieticians, food technologists, doctors and allied health professionals.
language: English
title: the Mediterranean Diets in Health and Disease
publisher: AVI/Van Nostrand Reinhold