Dietary interventions in gastrointestinal diseases : foods, nutrients, and dietary supplements /: foods, nutrients, and dietary supplements. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy.
• Editors: Watson, Ronald R (Ronald Ross); Preedy, Victor R
• Contents: Front Cover; Dietary Interventions in Gastrointestinal Diseases; Dietary Interventions in Gastrointestinal Diseases; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Biography; Acknowledgments; I -- Background and Overview of Diet and GI Tract Health; 1 -- Plant Family, Carvacrol, and Putative Protection in Gastric Cancer; 1. PLANT FAMILY AND PHYTOCHEMICALS; 1.1 General Properties of Dietary Phytochemicals; 1.2 Classification of Phytochemicals; 1.3 Mechanisms of Phytochemicals in Cancer Chemoprevention; 2. CARVACROL; 2.1 Carvacrol as a Molecule; 2.2 Carvacrol Sources 2.3 Chemical and Physical Properties of Carvacrol2.4 Metabolism and Excretion of Carvacrol; 2.5 Acute Toxicity of Carvacrol; 2.6 Biological Activities of Carvacrol; 2.6.1 Antioxidant Activity; 2.6.2 Prooxidant Activity; 2.6.3 Antimicrobial Activity: Antiviral, Antibacterial, and Antifungal; 2.6.4 Anticarcinogenic and Antiplatelet Effects; 2.6.5 Chemopreventive Effect; 2.6.6 Antiinflammatory and Antihypernociceptive Effects; 2.6.7 Hepatoprotective Effect; 2.6.8 Antispasmodic and Antitussive Effect; 2.6.9 Antiobesity Effect; 3. DIETARY PHYTOCHEMICALS IN GASTRIC CANCER CHEMOPREVENTION 4. GASTRIC CANCER4.1 Anatomy and Physiology; 4.2 Epidemiology of Gastric Cancer; 4.3 Etiology of Gastric Cancer; 4.4 Pathology of Gastric Cancer; 4.5 Types of Gastric Cancer; 4.6 Stages of Gastric Cancer; 4.7 Clinical Symptoms; 4.8 Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer; 4.9 Treatments; 4.9.1 Surgical Treatment; 4.9.2 Adjuvant Chemotherapy; 4.9.3 Radiotherapy; 4.9.4 Complementary and Alternative Therapies; REFERENCES; 2 -- The Physics of Fiber in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Laxation, Antidiarrheal, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC CONSTIPATION 2.1 Most Fibers Have No Laxative Effect, and at Least Four Can Be Constipating2.2 Insoluble Fiber/Wheat Bran and Laxation; 2.3 Soluble Gel-Forming Fiber/Psyllium and Laxation; 2.4 Misconceptions About Fiber and Laxation; 2.5 Summary: Fiber and Laxation; 3. ANTIDIARRHEAL EFFECTS OF FIBER; 3.1 Fermented Fibers/Prebiotics and Treatment/Prevention of Diarrhea; 3.2 Prebiotics: Traveler's Diarrhea, Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea, and Clostridium difficile-Associated Diarrhea; 3.3 Fermented Fibers/Prebiotics and Enteral Nutrition-Induced Diarrhea 3.4 Mixed Fibers and Enteral Nutrition-Induced Diarrhea3.5 Gel-Forming Fibers and Treatment/Prevention of Diarrhea; 3.5.1 Guar Gum and Treatment/Prevention of Diarrhea; 3.5.2 Psyllium and Treatment/Prevention of Diarrhea; 3.5.3 Psyllium and Enteral Nutrition-Induced Diarrhea; 4. FIBER AND IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; 4.1 Fermentable Fiber/Prebiotics and Irritable Bowel Syndrome; 4.2 Insoluble Wheat Bran and Irritable Bowel Syndrome; 4.3 Guar Gum and Irritable Bowel Syndrome; 4.4 Calcium Polycarbophil and Irritable Bowel Syndrome; 4.5 Psyllium and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Publisher Details: London : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 616.330654; Gastrointestinal system -- Diseases -- Diet therapy; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General; MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL / Diseases; MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL / Internal Medicine; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128144695; 0128144696
• Related ISBNs: 9780128144688
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