num_pages: 464
description: In recent years, due to increasing demands of consumers for alternative and preventive health management, the market for supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods has expanded exponentially. Food Factors in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention brings together expert scientists inchemistry, biochemistry, genetics, pharmacology, and related medical sciences from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Europe, and North America to addresss important food factors which have shown effects in health promotion and disease prevention.This volume includes recent advances in phytochemicals and health, including several chapters on bioavailability, signal transduction, and gene modulation of bioactives in foods.
language: English
title: Food Factors in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
titlecomplete: Food Factors in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (ACS Symposium Series, No. 851)
publisher: American Chemical Society