Protective effects of tea on human health /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Tea > Therapeutic use.; Tea.; Catechin > therapeutic use.; Tea > Health aspects.; Camellia sinensis.; Phytotherapy > methods.; Plant Extracts > therapeutic use.; Crop Produce.; Food Composition and Quality.; Food Chemistry, (New June 2002); Nutrition related Disorders and Therapeutic Nutrition.; Man.; Disease prevention.; Food consumption.; Food intake.; Health.; Health protection.; Human diseases.; Electronic books.
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This book provides information on the preventive and therapeutic value of tea against different diseases. It was conceived in order to provide the consuming public scientifically supported data on the health benefits of tea drinking and to inform tea scientists about the status of research in their...

Table of Contents:

• Tea is a health-promoting beverage in lowering the risk of premature killing chronic diseases : a review / J.H. Weisburger
• Tea as a rasayana / B.N. Dhawan
• Prophylactic functions of tea catechins / Y. Hara
• Bioavailabilities of tea polyphenols in humans and rodents / J.D. Lambert, J. Hong, H. Lu, X. Meng, M.-J. Lee and C.S. Yang
• Immunomodulatory activity of tea / J. Singh and G.N. Qazi
• Antigenotoxic activity of tea / Y. Shukla and A. Arora
• Methodological issues in population studies of tea and disease prevention / I.A. Hakim
• Protective effects of tea against cardiovascular diseases / S. Wiseman, I. Zijp, R. Weggemans and A. Rietveld
• Potential targets of tea polyphenols in cancer prevention / T. Das, G. Sa, and M. Siddiqi
• The beverage tea in chemoprevention of prostate cancer / M. Saleem, I.A. Siddiqui, and H. Mukhtar
• Anti-diabetic effects of tea and its constituents / Y.K. Gupta, C. Tripathi, and Y. Shukla
• Green tea catechins against oxidative stress of renal disease / T.P. Rao, L.R. Juneja, and T. Yokozawa
• Hepatoprotective properties of tea / Y. Shukla, N. Kalra, and Y.K. Gupta
• Preventive effects of tea against obesity / K. Sayama, T. Hase, I. Tokimitsu and I. Oguni
• Protective effects of tea against lung/pulmonary ailments / H. Yamada
• Antibacterial and antiviral effects of tea : from influenza to SARS / P.C. Leung
• Green tea and the prevention of arthritis / S. Ahmed, B.B. Hafeez, and T.M. Haqqi
• Chemoprevention effect of tea against neuronal death-dementia / T. Kakadu
• Chemoprevention action of tea against senescence/ageing / K. Unno
• Tea and oral health / C.D. Wu.