Wild-type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention : The Columbus Concept

It is essential to force a U-turn in the way contemporary medicine approaches ill-health diseases. Early prevention of primary risk factors is a far more promising approach compared to late acute treatment of secondary risk factors in reducing the cost burden of Public Health, not mentioning the expected benefits of the former versus the latter approaches with regards to the Quality of Life. __Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept__ is one of the first books to focus on the role of omega-6/3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in unhealthy diets. The volume is divided into five sections. The first identifies the missing essential ratio of competing essential fatty acids in the human diet and relates them to the upsurge of modern chronic disease and associated health costs. The authors also explain the scientific basis of the Columbus Concept and the evidence supporting the rehabilitation of dietary/blood cholesterol. In the second section, authors discuss the essential ingredients in a daily diet that make blood vessels healthy and resistant. The third section introduces the functional part of the diet that brings about health benefits and healthy blood vessels. The fourth section details the health benefits of wild-type foods in various cultures. The final section investigates the possibility for novel sources for health promotion. __Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept__ presents a cutting-edge, in-depth investigation into new methods of health promotion. Contents......Page 13 Preface......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Contributors......Page 17 Part I. The Columbus Concept: Scope and Limitation......Page 20 1. Wild-Type Land-Based Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The LDL-CC:HDL-CC Model......Page 22 2. The Japanese Experience: High Cholesterol is Not an Important Risk Factor of All-Cause Mortality......Page 40 3. High ω6:ω3 Fatty Acid Ratio: The Israeli Experience......Page 48 4. Omega-6/Omega-3 Fatty Acid Ratio is Important for Health: Lessons From Genetically Modified Cells and Animals......Page 54 5. Tissue Omega-6 and Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Health and Disease......Page 70 6. ω-3 Fatty Acids and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A European Union Clinical and Financial Impact Evaluation of the Columbus Concept......Page 74 7. The Nutritional Conditions of Human Evolution: Current Paleoanthropological Understanding......Page 94 II. Essential Nutrients in the Wild: Health Benefits......Page 108 8. The "Wild-Type" Egg: An Empirical Approach to a Reference Pattern for Dietary Fatty Acids in Human Nutrition......Page 110 9. The Essentiality of Eicosapentaenoic Acid in Breast Milk During Human Lactation......Page 134 10. The Natural Fatty Acid Compositions of Eggs of Wild Birds and the Consequences of Domestication......Page 140 11. Simultaneous Enrichment of Eggs With PUFAs and Antioxidants: Prospects and Limitations......Page 158 12. Egg Composition vs CVD Risk: From Lipid to Endothelial and Inflammatory Hypotheses......Page 174 13. Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Studies in Avians......Page 188 14. Chia as a New Source of ω-3 Fatty Acids: Nutritional Comparison with Other Raw Materials and Its Advantages When Producing ω-3 Enriched Eggs......Page 198 15. Evaluating the Biological Activity and Effects on Human Health of Fish Oil and Its Omega-3 Fatty Acids......Page 214 16. Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Mediterranean Diet in the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases......Page 234 17. Dietary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease......Page 246 18. Fatty Acids, Insulin Resistance, and Diabetes......Page 262 19. Fatty Acids in the Causation and Therapy of Metabolic Syndrome......Page 282 20. Immune Modulation and Cancer Resistance: Enhancement by ω-3 Fatty Acids......Page 304 21. ω-3 Fatty Acids in Physical and Mental Health and Disease......Page 328 22. Dietary Prevention of Adult Macular Degeneration: ω-3 Fatty Acids and Antioxidants......Page 342 23. Promoting Eye and Skin Health Through Intake of the Natural Carotenoid Lutein......Page 350 24. Calcium Phosphate: Nutrition in Prevention of Early Childhood Dental Caries......Page 362 Part III. Functional Components in the Wild: Health Benefits......Page 374 25. Natural Antioxidants in Land- and Marine-Based Wild-Type Food: Risk Reduction......Page 376 26. Chia Seeds and the Columbus Concept: Bakery and Animal Products......Page 396 27. Health Effects of Foods Rich in Polyphenols......Page 412 28. Polyphenols and Immunity......Page 432 29. Flavanoid-Rich Dietary Supplements' Influence on Heart Failure......Page 454 30. Dietary Carotenoids in Health Promotion: Lycopene......Page 462 31. Dietary Intake of Lycopene and Risk of Prostate Cancer......Page 482 Part IV. Wild-Type Food in Different Cultures: Health Benefits......Page 488 32. Local Wild Foods in the Mediterranean Countries: From Micronutrients to Healthy Effects......Page 490 33. Changing the Spanish-Mediterranean Diet: Effects on Plasma Lipids......Page 498 34. Lebanese Traditional Diets and Health Effects......Page 512 35. Fats and Fatty Acids in Nutrition of the Iranian People......Page 518 36. Southeast Asian Diets and Health Promotion......Page 534 Part V. The Columbus Concept: The Market Approach......Page 554 37. Columbus Feed Around the World: Selection of Ingredients and Potential Influence on Future International Strategy for Crop Selection......Page 556 38. Modification of a National Diet and Lifestyle Toward Wild-Type Foods: The Cuban Experience in Promoting Health......Page 564 39. Studies on the Effects of Diets Realistic for Westernized People on Plasma Lipoprotein Composition, Metabolism, and Atherosclerosis in Vervet Monkeys......Page 574 B......Page 584 D......Page 585 F......Page 586 I......Page 587 M......Page 588 S......Page 589 Z......Page 590 "It is essential to force a U-turn in the way contemporary medicine approaches ill-health diseases. Early prevention of primary risk factors is a far more promising approach compared to late acute treatment of secondary risk factors in reducing the cost burden of Public Health, not mentioning the expected benefits of the former versus the latter approaches with regards to the Quality of Life. Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept is one of the first books to focus on the role of omega-6/3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in unhealthy diets. The volume is divided into five sections. The first identifies the missing essential ratio of competing essential fatty acids in the human diet and relates them to the upsurge of modern chronic disease and associated health costs. The authors also explain the scientific basis of the Columbus Concept and the evidence supporting the rehabilitation of dietary/blood cholesterol. In the second section, authors discuss the essential ingredients in a daily diet that make blood vessels healthy and resistant. The third section introduces the functional part of the diet that brings about health benefits and healthy blood vessels. The fourth section details the health benefits of wild-type foods in various cultures. The final section investigates the possibility for novel sources for health promotion. Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept presents a cutting-edge, in-depth investigation into new methods of health promotion."--Product description (www.bn.com)