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  title info:
    title: Nutrition, Food and Diet in Ageing and Longevity
  name:
    name part: Rattan, Suresh I. S.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Kaur, Gurcharan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2021
    edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XV, 642 pages 35 illustrations, 27 illustrations in color.)
  abstract: This edited volume is a compilation of 30 articles discussing what constitutes food for health and longevity. The aim is to provide up-to-date information, insights, and future tendencies in the ongoing scientific research about nutritional components, food habits and dietary patterns in different cultures. The health-sustaining and health-promoting effects of food are certainly founded in its overall composition of macronutrients and micronutrients. However, the consumption of these nutrients is normally in the form of raw or prepared food from the animal and plant sources. The book is divided into four parts and a conclusion, and successfully convenes the well-established information and knowledge, along with the personal views of a diversified group of researchers and academicians on the multifaceted aspects of nutrition, food and diet. The first part reviews the scientific information about proteins, carbohydrates, fats and oils, micronutrients, pro- and pre-biotics, and hormetins, along with a discussion of the evolutionary principles and constraints about what is optimal food, if any. The second part discusses various kinds of foods and food supplements with respect to their claimed benefits for general health and prevention of some diseases. The third part brings in the cultural aspects, such as what are the principles of healthy eating according to the traditional Chinese and Indian systems, what is the importance of mealing times and daily rhythms, and how different cultures have developed different folk wisdoms for eating for health, longevity and immortality. In the part four, various approaches which are either already in practice or are still in the testing and research phases are discussed and evaluated critically, for example intermittent fasting and calorie restriction, food-based short peptides, senolytics, Ayurvedic compounds, optimal food for old people, and food for the prevention of obesity and other metabolic disorders. The overreaching aim of …
  table of contents: Dietary proteins: functions and health benefits -- Fats and oils in healthy ageing and longevity -- Micronutrients in ageing and longevity -- Prebiotics and probiotics in ageing and longevity -- Nutritional hormetins in ageing and longevity -- Nutritional regulation of ageing and longevity (Alexey Moskalev, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology -- Animal- and plant-based food for health and longevity (AzzaSilotry Naik, Food BioSciences Department, Teagasc Food Research Centre. .
  note: edited by Suresh I. S. Rattan, Gurcharan Kaur.
  subject:
    topic: Aging
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics
  subject:
    topic: Geriatric nursing
  subject:
    topic: Employee health promotion
  subject:
    topic: Aging
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics/Gerontology
  subject:
    topic: Geriatric Care
  subject:
    topic: Employee Health and Wellbeing
  classification: HQ1060-1064
  classification: 305.26
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Nature eBook
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Healthy Ageing and Longevity, 14
  identifier: 9783030830175
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  record info:
    record creation date: 211003
    record change date: 20240805190656.8
    record identifier: in00004376912