Health benefits of organic food : effects of the environment /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Natural foods > Health aspects.; Natural foods > Environmental aspects.; Consumer Economics.; Pesticide and Drug Residues and Ecotoxicology, (New March 2000); Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Food Composition and Quality.; Human Nutrition (General); Human Health and the Environment.; Man.; Consumer attitudes.; Environmental factors.; Flavonoids.; Foodborne diseases.; Health promotion.; Health protection.; Human diseases.; Nutritive value.; Organic farming.; Organic foods.; Pesticides.; Polyenoic fatty acids.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book is the result of a Workshop. The objective of this Workshop was to address three key issues: the quantifiable effects of organic in comparison with conventionally produced food on human health; the environment impact on these possible health benefits; and how the public perceives these benefits. To address these issues, the Workshop examined such factors as the role of certain nutrients (e.g. nitrate and long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids acids) in the prevention and promotion of chronic disease, the potential health benefits of bioactive compounds in plants (e.g. flavonoids), the prevalence of food-borne pesticides and pathogens and how both local and global environmental factors may affect any differences between organic and conventionally produced foods.