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Phytochemicals : health promotion and therapeutic potential / editors, Colleen Carkeet [and others]. - xx, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"An examination of foods, botanicals, and phytochemicals as they relate to the prevention of age-related chronic diseases, this book discusses herbs and spices in cancer prevention; wine, phenolics, and cancer; anthocyanins in cardiovascular health; anti-inflammatories; skin photoprotection; beny phytochemicals; green tea catechins; and cognitive function in the elderly. The book begins with an overview of phytonutrients in human health and disease, and covers chronic disease prevention, bone and joint health, skin health, obesity and metabolism, and brain health. The final chapter describes an analytical technique 'proving very powerful in phytonutrient research in humans"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781466551626 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1466551623 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2012025567

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Herbs--Therapeutic use--Congresses.
Materia medica, Vegetable--Congresses.
Phytochemicals--Congresses.
Older people--Diseases--Prevention--Congresses.
Chronic diseases--Prevention--Congresses.
Chronic Disease--prevention & control--Congresses.
Phytotherapy--methods--Congresses.
Aged.
Plant Extracts--therapeutic use--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: RM666.H33 / I55 2013

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National Library of Medicine Call No.: WT 500 / .I55 2013