Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion (Nutrition and Health)

The industrial and agricultural revolutions have dramatically changed our lifestyles including where we get foods and what we eat. Modern diets have moved away from a close association with historically beneficial foods and diets towards foods and diets with increased fats and contaminants & nbsp; and with much lower intakes of fruits and vegetables. Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion focuses on the scientific evidence that defines such risks in modern diets with the consequences of increased illness, cancer and disease. There is also an emphasis on methods to reverse negative components of modern diets for health improvement. The volume is divided into five sections including the section on the behavioral aspects of eating; a second section on dietary fats; the third section examines the clinical relevance of fats and cardiovascular disease. The fourth section contains novel chapters on the potential for contaminants in fats and oils to increase risk of illnesses. The fifth section looks at dietary and pharmaceutical approaches to modify fat-induced disease and ill-health. Each section contains chapters that address treatment options as well as prevention strategies. Modern Dietary Fat Intake in Disease Promotion, edited by Fabien DeMeester, Sherma Zibadi, and Ronald Ross Watson, provides health professionals in many areas of research and practice with the most up-to-date, well-referenced, and easy-to-understand volume on the importance of identifying and treating as well as providing strategies to prevent the development of chronic, serious metabolic diseases Front Matter....Pages i-xxv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Western Diet and Behavior: The Columbus Concept....Pages 3-29 The Social Context of Dietary Behaviors: The Role of Social Relationships and Support on Dietary Fat and Fiber Intake....Pages 31-42 Social Class, Food Intakes and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease in the Developing World: The Asian Paradox....Pages 43-70 Social, Cultural, Economical, and Practical Factors....Pages 71-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Partially Hydrogenated Fats in the US Diet and Their Role in Disease....Pages 85-94 Fatty Acid Ratios in Free-Living and Domestic Animals....Pages 95-108 Is Saturated Fat Bad?....Pages 109-119 Alteration of Human Body Composition and Tumorigenesis by Isomers of Conjugated Linoleic Acid....Pages 121-131 Insulin Resistance and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Induced by Conjugated Linoleic Acid in Humans....Pages 133-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Dietary Fat Intake: Promotion of Disease in Carotid Artery Disease: Lipid Lowering Versus Side Effects of Statins....Pages 151-184 Recent Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Trials: New Data, New Questions....Pages 185-191 Leptin and Obesity: Role in Cardiac Structure and Dysfunction....Pages 193-197 Cardiac Structural and Functional Changes in Genetically Modified Models of Obesity....Pages 199-203 Fat-Modified Dairy Products and Blood Lipids in Humans....Pages 205-214 Modified Milk Fat Reduces Plasma Triacylglycerol Concentrations: Health and Disease Effects....Pages 215-225 Dietary Supplements, Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Disease....Pages 227-247 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 Ill Health Effects of Food Lipids: Consequences of Inadequate Food Processing, Storage and Cooking....Pages 251-274 Mycotoxins in Human Diet: A Hidden Danger....Pages 275-303 Nutrition–Toxicological Dilemma on Fish Consumption....Pages 305-320 Anthropogenic and Naturally Produced Contaminants in Fish Oil: Role in Ill Health....Pages 321-342 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 Do Modern Western Diets Play a Role in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis?....Pages 345-349 The Role of Modern Western Diets in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder....Pages 351-357 The Role of Dietary Fat in Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes....Pages 359-369 Strategies to Modify School-Based Foods to Lower Obesity and Disease Risk....Pages 371-378 Selenium Enigma: Health Implications of an Inadequate Supply....Pages 379-403 Homocysteine: Role in Cardiovascular Disease....Pages 405-415 Dietary Plant Extracts to Modify Effects of High Fat Modern Diets in Health Promotion....Pages 417-430 Don’t Diet: Adverse Effects of the Weight Centered Health Paradigm....Pages 431-441 Physical Activity in Diet-Induced Disease Causation and Prevention in Women and Men....Pages 443-454 Back Matter....Pages 455-474 The Nutrition and Health series of books have had great success because each volume has the consistent overriding mission of providing health professionals with texts that are essential because each includes (1) a synthesis of the state of the science, (2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading researchers in their respective ?elds, (3) extensive, up-to-date fully annotated ref- ence lists, (4) a detailed index, (5) relevant tables and ?gures, (6) identi?cation of paradigm shifts and the consequences, (7) virtually no overlap of information between chapters, but targeted, inter-chapter referrals, (8) suggestions of areas for future research, and (9) balanced, data-driven answers to patient as well as health professionals questions which are based upon the totality of evidence rather than the ?ndings of any single study. The series volumes are not the outcome of a symposium. Rather, each editor has the potential to examine a chosen area with a broad perspective, both in subject matter and in the choice of chapter authors. The editor(s), whose training(s) is (are) both research and practice oriented, has(ve) the opportunity to develop a primary objective for their book, de?ne the scope and focus, and then invite the leading authorities to be part of their initiative. The authors are encouraged to provide an overview of the ?eld, discuss their own research, and relate the research ?ndings to potential human health consequences. The industrial and agricultural revolutions have dramatically changed our lifestyles including where we get foods and what we eat. Modern diets have moved away from a close association with historically beneficial foods and diets towards food and diets with increased fats and contaminants. "Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion" focuses on the scientific evidence that defines such risks in modern diets with the consequences of increased illness, cancer, and disease. The volume is divided into five sections including the section on the behavioral aspects of eating; a second section on dietary fats; the third section examines the clinical relevance of fats and cardiovascular disease. The fourth section contains novel chapters on the potential for contaminants in fats and oils to increase risk of illness. The fifth section looks at dietary and pharmaceutical approaches to modify fat-induced disease and ill-health. -- From publisher's description