Bioactive Foods in Promoting Health: Probiotics and Prebiotics

Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy

Academic Press, Feb 26, 2010 - Cooking - 638 pages

Bioactive Foods in Promoting Health: Probiotics and Prebiotics brings together experts working on the different aspects of supplementation, foods, and bacterial preparations, in health promotion and disease prevention, to provide current scientific information, as well as providing a framework upon which to build clinical disease treatment studies. Since common dietary bacterial preparations are over-the-counter and readily available, this book will be useful to the growing nutrition, food science, and natural product community that will use it as a resource in identifying dietary behavioral modifications in pursuit of improved health as well as for treatment of specific disease, as it focuses on the growing body of knowledge of the role of various bacteria in reducing disease risk and disease.

Probiotics are now a multi-billion-dollar, dietary supplement business which is built upon extremely little research data. In order to follow the 1994 ruling, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with the support of Congress is currently pushing this industry to base its claims and products on scientific research. Research as shown that dietary habits need to be altered for most people whether for continued or improved good health. The conclusions and recommendations from the various chapters in this book will provide a basis for those important factors of change by industry with new uses. Animal studies and early clinical ones will lead to new uses and studies. Particularly the cutting edge experimental and clinical studies from Europe will provide novel approaches to clinical uses through their innovative new studies.

• Heavy emphasis on clinical applications (benefits and/or lack thereof) as well as future biomedical therapeutic uses identified in animal model studies
• Focused on therapies and data supporting them for application in clinical medicine as complementary and alternative medicines
• Key insights into gut flora and the potential health benefits thereof
• Health scientists and nutritionists will use this information to map out key areas of research. Food scientists will use it in product development
• Information on pre-and probiotics as important sources of micro-and macronutrients
• Aids in the development of methods of bio-modification of dietary plant molecules for health promotion
• Coverage of a broad range of bacterial consituents
• Nutritionists will use the information to identify which of these constituents should be used as dietary supplements based on health status of an individual
• Science-based information on the health promoting characteristics of pre-and probiotics
• Provides defense of food selections for individual consumption based on health needs and current status
• Diverse international authoring team experienced in studying prebiotics and probiotics for medical practice
• Unusally broad range of experiences and newly completed clinical and animal studies provides extended access to latest information

Contents

• PREBIOTICS IN HEALTH PROMOTION: 95
• PREBIOTICS AND PROBIOTICS AS THERAPIES: 157
• PROBIOTICS AND HEALTH: 235
• ANIMAL MODELS TO STUDY PROBIOTICS: 529
• Index: 611

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. Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRSC, FRCPath graduated with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. After gaining his University of London PhD, he received his Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was later awarded his second doctorate (DSc), for his contribution to protein metabolism in health and disease. He is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (Hon) at King's College Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at King's College London. He has Honorary Professorships at the University of Hull, and the University of Suffolk. Professor Preedy was the Founding Director and then long-term Director of the Genomics Centre at King's College London from 2006 to 2020. Professor Preedy has been awarded fellowships of the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, the Royal Institute of Public Health, the Royal Society for Public Health, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Medicine. He carried out research when attached to the National Heart Hospital (part of Imperial College London), The School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London) and the MRC Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated with international research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, USA, and Germany. To his credit, Professor Preedy has published over 750 articles, which includes peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, abstracts and symposium presentations, reviews and edited books.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bioactive Foods in Promoting Health: Probiotics and Prebiotics
• Editors: Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy
• Publisher: Academic Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0123749387, 9780123749383
• Length: 638 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / General; Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / General; Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition; Health & Fitness / General; Technology & Engineering / Food Science / General