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Caffeine provides information on composition, processing, consumption, health effects, and epidemiological correlations for the methylxanthine beverages and foods and serves as a useful tool for anyone interested in the methylxanthine-containing products.

CRC Handbook of Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition explores the chemistry, analytical methodologies, physiological and biochemical aspects, clinical and epidemiological studies, and consumption patterns of dietary fiber. Updated and expanded, it presents animal and human studies on the effects of fiber on cancer, heart disease, and gastrointestinal disease. It includes concise, easy-to-read tables and graphics that cover all aspects of dietary f...

Caffeine - found in tea, coffee, maté, cola beverages, cocoa, and chocolate products - is an integral part of the diet of many people. This book answers questions for a broad range of readers interested in the effects beverages and foods containing this dietary methylxanthine have on human health, nutrition, and physiological functioning. The composition, processing, consumption, health effects, and epidemiological correlations of caffeine are...

Dietary therapy has always been important to medical practice even if it has more often been sacramental than physiological in effect. "You are what you eat" meant a lot to primitive tribes whose new leader had to eat part of his predecessor, and giving diets brought out the priest in the physician even if he or she had heard that "nothing that enters into a man defiles a man. " What people eat began to take on new meaning, however, a generati...

Dietary fiber is widely recognized as an essential element of good nutrition. In fact, research on the use of fiber in food science and medicine is being conducted at an incredible pace. This book explores the chemistry, analytical methodologies, physiological and biochemical aspects, clinical and epidemiological studies, and consumption patterns of dietary fiber. This third edition has been updated and expanded to include new information that...

Provides a concise overview of lipids and health and opens the way to more challenging thinking about this important subject.

It is difficult to find the moment when the idea for a book is first born. For this book, the basic concept was probably born during conversations I had in Parma, Italy, with Dr. Riccardi of the University of Naples and Dr. Jenkins of the University of Toronto (Canada). Later, in a conference room at the University of Verona (Italy) School of Medicine, I had a day-long meeting with Drs. Bosello and Cominacini of the University of Verona, and D...