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Functional Foods for Disease Prevention I: Fruits, Vegetables, and Teas »

Authors: Takayuki Shibamoto (Editor), Toshihiko Osawa (Editor), Junji Terao
ISBN-13: 9780841235724, ISBN-10: 0841235724
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: An American Chemical Society Publication
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Takayuki Shibamoto

University of California, Davis

University of Tokushima

Nagoya University

Book Synopsis

This book contains perspectives on the role of functional foods in the prevention of various human diseases, and this first volume of two focuses on the role fruit, vegetables, and teas play in prevention. The book contains the latest scientific research and the impact of this research on policy and regulation of functional foods.

Booknews

The first of two volumes emerging from an April 1997 symposium in San Francisco, the other covering medicinal plants and other foods. After overviews, the 23 papers cover foods in the three groups that, along with related compounds, are used to fight cancer, aging, and other conditions. Among specific discussions are the prevention of cancer, carotenoids as a promising factor for functional foods, anti-fatigue effects of yiegin, and tea catechin and its metabolites as bioantioxidants. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Preface
	Contents(Volume II)
1	The Prevention of Cancer	2
2	Glucosinolates, Myrosinase, and Isothiocyanates: Three Reasons for Eating Brassica Vegetables	16
3	Chemoprevention of Colon Cancer by Select Phytochemicals	23
4	Lycopene and Cancer: An Overview	34
5	Mechanisms of Phytochemical Inhibition of Carcinogenesis: Elucidating the Role of [gamma]-Tocopherol in Nutrition	45
6	Carotenoids, as Promising Factor for Functional Foods	59
7	Metabolism of Dietary Carotenoids and Their Potential Role in Prevention of Cancer and Age-Related Macular Degeneration	71
8	Auraptene, an Alkyloxylated Coumarin from Citrus natsudaidai HAYATA, Inhibits Mouse Skin Tumor Promotion and Rat Colonic Aberrant Crypt Foci Formation	86
9	Anticarcinogenic and/or Antimetastatic Action of Apple Pectin in Experimental Rat Colon Carcinogenesis and on Hepatic Metastasis Rat Model	96
10	Antitumor Activity of Emblica officinalis Gaertn Fruit Extract	104
11	Beneficial Effect of Moderate Alcohol Consumption to Health: A Review of Recent Results on Wines	114
12	Anti-Fatigue Effects of Yiegin	122
13	A Potent Antioxidative and Anti-UV-B Isoflavonoids Transformed Microbiologically from Soybean Components	127
14	Soy Isoflavones in Foods: Database Development	138
15	Human Bioavailability of Soy Bean Isoflavones: Influences of Diet, Dose, Time, and Gut Microflora	150
16	The Color Stability and Antioxidative Activity of an Anthocyanin and [gamma]-Cyclodextrin Complex	157
17	Inhibitory Effect of Flavonoids on Lipoxygenase-Dependent Lipid Peroxidation of Human Plasma Lipoproteins	172
18	Comparison on the Nitrite Scavenging Activity and Antimutagen Formation Between Insoluble and Soluble Dietary Fibers	178
19	Antitumor Effect of Green Tea on Rat Urinary Bladder Tumor Induced by N-Butyl-N-(4-hydroxybuty) nitrosamine	191
20	In Vitro and In Vivo Effects of Fatty Acids and Phenolic Compounds on Chemical Mediator Release from Rat Peritoneal Exudate Cells	198
21	Tea Catechin (EGCG) and Its Metabolites as Bioantioxidants	209
22	Effects of Tea Polyphenols Against Helicobacter pylori	217
23	Modulation of Mitotic Signal Transduction by Curcumin and Tea Polyphenols and Their Implication for Cancer Chemoprevention	225
	Author Index	241
	Subject Index	243

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