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Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention 2nd Edition
Author(s): Preedy (Editor), Watson
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Publication Date: 24 April 2020
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 598 pages
- ISBN-10: 0128185538
- ISBN-13: 9780128185537
Book Description
Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention, Second Edition investigates the benefits of nuts and seeds in health and disease prevention using an organizational style that will provide easy-access to information that supports identifying treatment options and the development of symptom-specific functional foods. This book examines seeds and nuts as agents that affect metabolism and other health-related conditions and explores the impact of compositional differences between various seeds and nuts, including differences based on country of origin and processing technique. Finally, the book includes methods for the analysis of seed and nut-related compounds.
Written for nutrition researchers, nutritionists, food scientists, government regulators of food, and students of agriculture, oils and feeds, nutrition and life sciences, this book is sure to be a welcomed resource.
- Identifies options and opportunities for improving health through the consumption of nut and seed products
- Provides easy access to information that supports the identification of treatment options
- Contains insights into health benefits that will assist in development of symptom-specific functional foods
- Examines seeds and nuts as agents that affect metabolism and other health-related conditions
- Explores the impact of compositional differences between various seeds and nuts, including differences based on country of origin and processing technique
- Includes methods for analysis of seed and nut-related compound
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Investigates the benefits of nuts and seeds in health and disease prevention
About the Author
Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson’s career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models.
