The industrial and agricultural revolutions have dramatically changed our lifestyles including where we get foods and what we eat. Modern diets have moved away from a close association with historically beneficial foods and diets towards foods and diets with increased fats and contaminants and with much lower intakes of fruits and vegetables. Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion focuses on the scientific evidence that define such risks in modern diets with the consequences of increased illness, cancer and disease. There is also an emphasis on methods to reverse negative components of modern diets for health improvement. The volume is divided into six sections. The first section focuses on the behavioral aspects of eating and is followed by sections on fats, obesity and cardiovascular disease and fats and cholesterol. The fourth section contains novel chapters on the potential for contaminants in fats and oils to increase risk of illnesses. The fifth section examines fat induced disease and ill-health. The sixth section looks at dietary and pharmaceutical approaches to modify fat-induced disease and ill-health. Each section contains chapters that address treatment options as well as prevention strategies.Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion provides practical, data-driven resources based upon the totality of the evidence to help the reader understand both the basics as well as treatments and preventive strategies that are involved in balancing the fats in one’s diet as well as within one’s body.

This book examines the protective role of long chain omega-3 fatty acids in cardiovascular disease, neurological changes and mental health and others including diabetes, as well as sources of long chain omega-3 fatty acids and ways to protect and promote them.

The Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition disseminates current information pertaining to the modulatory effects of foods and other food substances on behavior and neurological pathways and, importantly, vice versa.

The Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition disseminates current information pertaining to the modulatory effects of foods and other food substances on behavior and neurological pathways and, importantly, vice versa.

This book offers a concise, current scientific appraisal and economic analysis of nutritional supplements and bioactive components (nutriceuticals) of foods, providing a needed one-stop reference for nutrition and medical professionals in many settings.

This book offers a concise, current scientific appraisal and economic analysis of nutritional supplements and bioactive components (nutriceuticals) of foods, providing a needed one-stop reference for nutrition and medical professionals in many settings.

This book offers a concise, current scientific appraisal and economic analysis of nutritional supplements and bioactive components (nutriceuticals) of foods, providing a needed one-stop reference for nutrition and medical professionals in many settings.

The Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition disseminates current information pertaining to the modulatory effects of foods and other food substances on behavior and neurological pathways and, importantly, vice versa.

This comprehensive reference takes a holistic approach , covering psychological, endocrine and lifestyle factors, metabolism and physiology, bone and nutrition, cancer and nutrition, cardiovascular factors and dietary supplements in menopause.

This comprehensive reference takes a holistic approach , covering psychological, endocrine and lifestyle factors, metabolism and physiology, bone and nutrition, cancer and nutrition, cardiovascular factors and dietary supplements in menopause.