Diet, Inflammation, and Health
eBook - ePub

Diet, Inflammation, and Health

  1. 926 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Diet, Inflammation, and Health

About this book

Diet, Inflammation, and Health introduces concepts of inflammation, the role of acute inflammatory responses in good health, and the association of chronic systemic inflammation with mental distress, cognitive decline, and chronic diseases, ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer. The book also describes the pathophysiology of inflammation and its effects on insulin insensitivity and blunted immune response to carcinogenesis. Researchers and allied health care professionals working in dietetics and medicine, as well as students studying related fields will benefit from this reference and its recommendations on areas where future research is needed. - Addresses the role of acute inflammatory responses in achieving and maintaining good health - Covers the association of chronic system inflammation with various conditions and diseases - Describes the effect of inflammation on mechanisms ranging from insulin insensitivity and immune response to carcinogenesis

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Table of contents

  1. Diet, Inflammation, and Health
  2. Cover
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Copyright Page
  6. List of contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Inflammation in the long arc of history
  9. Chapter 2 History of nutrition and inflammation
  10. Chapter 3 Diet and acute and chronic, systemic, low-grade inflammation
  11. Chapter 4 Resolving acute inflammation; what happens when inflammation goes haywire? How can it get back in line?
  12. Chapter 5 Methods and tools used to describe and quantify the associations between diet, inflammation, and health
  13. Chapter 6 Diet, inflammation, and the ā€œitisesā€ (including musculoskeletal and gastrointestinal conditions)
  14. Chapter 7 Dietary patterns and type 2 diabetesā€”relationship to metabolic syndrome and inflammation
  15. Chapter 8 Diet, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease
  16. Chapter 9 Diet, inflammation, and cancer
  17. Chapter 10 Inflammatory potential of diet in mental disorders and psychosocial stress
  18. Chapter 11 Inflammatory potential of diet and aging
  19. Chapter 12 Inflammatory potential of diet and health outcomes in pregnancy, infancy, and childhood
  20. Chapter 13 Physical activity and inflammation
  21. Chapter 14 The role of diet and physical activity in influencing the microbiota/microbiome
  22. Chapter 15 Inflammatory potential of the diet
  23. Chapter 16 What constitutes an antiinflammatory diet? How does this contrast with a proinflammatory diet?
  24. Chapter 17 Following the long arc of history
  25. Index