Nutrition and physical activity in inflammatory diseases /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: Inflammation > Pathophysiology.; Inflammation > Nutritional aspects.; Exercise > Physiological aspects.; Inflammation > physiopathology.; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.; Physical Exertion > physiology.; Stress, Physiological.; Human Immunology and Allergology, (New March 2000); Physiology of Human Nutrition.; Nutrition related Disorders and Therapeutic Nutrition.; Non-communicable Human Diseases and Injuries.; Man.; Aging.; Alcohol intake.; Ascorbic acid.; Asthma.; Bone diseases.; Carbohydrates.; Cardiovascular diseases.; Chronic diseases.; Depression.; Dietary fat.; Exercise.; Eye diseases.; Human diseases.; Immunopathology.; Inflammation.; Inflammatory bowel diseases.; Nutrition.; Obesity.; Physical activity.; Phytochemicals.; Stress.; Trace elements.; Type 2 diabetes.; Vitamin B complex.; Vitamin D.; Vitamin E.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 398 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book presents recent developments and research discoveries in the areas of inflammation and related chronic diseases. The first part of the book provides an introduction to inflammation with special reference to aspects that can be modified by nutrition and physical activity interventions. The second part describes the effect of nutrition on inflammation, and how various nutrients (dietary fats, carbohydrates, alcohol, vitamin D, vitamin E, Vitamin C and B-complex vitamins, phytonutrients, and trace elements) affect inflammatory processes. Part 3 summarizes the impact of physical activity, specifically resistance exercise and endurance exercise, on inflammatory mediators. The last part gives a comprehensive review of how nutrition and physical activity interventions can be used to modulate inflammation to prevent the development and progression of chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, stress, depressive disorders, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, ageing, bone diseases and eye diseases.