Nutritional Health : Strategies for Disease Prevention

This text is an authoritative and comprehensive collection of reviews by leading authorities detailing the scientific evidence for the health effects of vitamins, minerals, functional foods, and other classes of foods. The authors provide readers with updated recommendations on a wide range of significant nutritional questions, including the cardiovascular effects of homocysteine and dietary fats; the importance of antioxidants and soy isoflavones with respect to heart disease and cancer; and the use of dietary modifications in the prevention and/or treatment of blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and osteoporosis.