Vegetarian and plant-based diets in health and disease prevention / edited by François Mariotti.
"Vegetarian and Plant-Based Diets in Health and Disease Prevention examines the science of vegetarian and plant-based diets and their nutritional impact on human health. This book assembles the science related to vegetarian and plant-based diets in a comprehensive, balanced, single reference th...
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Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Setting the scene: general features associated with vegetarian diets. Vegetarian diets: definitions and pitfalls in interpreting literature on health effects of vegetarianism
- Attitudes toward meat and plants in vegetarians
- Nutrition knowledge of vegetarians
- Vegetarianism and eating disorders
- Cognitive processes underlying vegetarianism as assessed by brain imaging
- Geographic aspects of vegetarianism: vegetarians in India
- Religious variations in vegetarian diets and impact on health status of children: perspectives from traditional vegetarian societies
- Dietary transition: longterm trends, animal versus plant energy intake, and sustainability issues
- Plant-based diets for mitigating climate change
- Barriers to increasing plant protein consumption in Western populations
- Part 2: Setting the scene: specific dietary characteristics of vegetarian diet and their relation to health. Dietary patterns in plant-based, vegetarian, and omnivorous diets
- Meat consumption and health outcomes
- Fruits, vegetables, and health: evidence from meta-analyses of prospective epidemiological studies
- Whole grains and disease risk
- Nut intake and health
- New concepts and paradigms for the protective effects of plant-based food components in relation to food complexity
- Part 3: The relations between vegetarian diets and health and disease. Bone health and vegan diets
- Weight maintenance and weight loss: the adoption of diets based on predominantly plants
- Cancer risk and vegetarian diets
- Vegetarian diets and the risk of type 2 diabetes
- Vegetarian diets in people with type 2 diabetes
- Blood pressure and vegetarian diets
- Ischemic heart disease in vegetarians and those consuming a predominantly plant-based diet
- Vegetarian diets and the microbiome
- Vegetarianism and the risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Defecation and stools in vegetarians: implications in health and disease
- Plant-based diets and asthma
- Vegetarian diet and possible mechanisms for impact on mood
- Part 4: Life events. Vegetarian infants and complementary feeding
- Nutritional status of vegetarian children
- Food and meals in vegetarian children and adolescents
- Vegetarian and plant-based diets in pregnancy
- Vegetarian diet and menopausal women
- Nutritional profiles of elderly vegetarians
- Part 5: Nutrients and other substances intake and status. plant protein, animal protein, and protein quality
- Plant protein, animal protein, and cardiometabolic health
- Polyunsaturated fatty acid status in vegetarians
- Implications of a plant-based diet on zinc requirements and nutritional status
- Plant-based diets and iron status
- Plant-based diets and selenium intake and status
- B vitamins intake and plasma homocysteine in vegetarians
- Iodine status, thyroid function, and vegetarianism
- Vitamin B12 deficiency in vegetarians
- Probiotics in nondairy products
- Exposure to pesticide residues and contaminants of the vegetarian population: French data.