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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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 ben...

Table of Contents:

• Organic farming and food systems : definitions and key characteristics / E. Stockdale and C. Watson
• The health benefits of n-3 fatty acids and their concentrations in organic and conventional animal-derived foods / A.M. Minihane, D.I. Givens and R.A. Gibbs
• Environmental impacts on the n-3 content of foods from ruminant animals / N.D. Scollan, E.J. Kim, M.R.F. Lee, F. Whittington and R.I. Richardson
• Health benefits and selenium content of organic versus conventional foods / J.R. Arthur
• Environmental impacts concerning the selenium content of foods / P.W. Abrahams
• Contaminants in organic and conventional food : the missing link between contaminant levels and health effects / C. Svendsen, A.M.J. Ragas, and J.-L.C.M. Dorne
• Mycotoxins in organic and conventional foods and effects of the environment / M. Olsen
• Human pathogens in organic and conventional foods and effects of the environment / A.H.C. van Bruggen, E. Franz and A.M. Semenov
• What does consumer science tell us about organic foods? / C. Ritson and M. Brennan
• The beneficial effects of dietary flavonoids : sources, bioavailability and biological functions / J.P.E. Spencer, D.Vauzour, K. Vafeiadou and A. Rodriguez-Mateos
• Environmental regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis / G.I. Jenkins
• Nitrates in the human diet / N. Benjamin
• Impacts of environment and management on nitrate in vegetables and water / E. Stockdale
• Effects of the environment on the nutritional quality and safety of organically produced foods : round-up and summary / D.P.Richardson.