This volume contains 25 essays on the role of nutrition in preventing heart disease. Health, nutrition, biology, and other researchers from around the world discuss vitamins and minerals, including antioxidants, vitamin E, vitamin D, carotenoids, vitamin C, and B vitamins; the role of nutrition and nutrition counseling in heart function and growth, including the role of food in the diet and modifying systemic and neural inflammation in obesity and metabolic syndrome, the role of food groups and dietary patterns, the use of modeling to estimate changes in cardiovascular disease burden, and the effects of copper on cardiovascular health; the function of dietary supplements, herbs, and foods, including taurine, bioactive nutrients, phytosterol, saturated fatty acids, leafy greens, herbs and functional foods, salt, and resveratrol, as well as environmental causes of cardiovascular disease; calories and protein intake, including dairy products and red wine; and the role of microbes like prebiotics and probiotics, microorganisms, and medicinal macrofungi from India. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality remains the primary cause of death worldwide, despite the decline in developed countries. CVD includes a variety of heart and vascular conditions: hypertensive heart disease, stroke, and ischemic heart disease. Some risk factors such as age, gender, and family history cannot be changed. Other causes, including diet, tobacco, drugs of abuse, alcohol, and lack of exercise, can be altered. In this book, experts review the validity of various dietary approaches in prevention and treatment of CVD for promotion of heart health. In summary, nutrients, nutraceuticals, macronutrients, and gastrointestinal microbes modified by prebiotics and probiotics play important roles in heart health and disease.The five sections in the book give an overview of the role of vitamins and minerals, nutrition and nutrition counselling, dietary supplements, herbs and foods, protein and energy, and microbes. A useful part of the chapters in this book are the key facts and summary points.
