Dairy in Human Health and Disease across the Lifespan
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Rating | : | 4.62 (925 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0128098686 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 490 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-03-20 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He has extensive experience working with natural products, alcohol, exercise, functional foods and dietary extracts for health benefits and safety issues, including getting 12 patents. He gained his University of London PhD in 1981. He is presently Professor Environmental Physiology and Director of the Agricultural Research Complex in the Animal Sciences Department. He is also Director of the Genomics Centre and a member of the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine. Professor Preedy is Editor of the influential works The Handbook Of Alcohol Related Pathology, The Neuropathology of Drug Addictions and Substance Misuse and The Handbook of Cannabis and Related Pathologi
In 2009, Professor Preedy became a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and in 2012 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. His dissertation research was on the endocrine regulation of lactogenesis in the dairy cow. He ga
Dairy in Human Health and Disease across the Lifespan addresses the contribution of milk to the human diet and health throughout the life span. Summaries capture the most salient points of each chapter, and the book provides coverage of dairy as a functional food in health and disease.Presents various dairy products and their impact on health specific to various stages in the lifespanProvides information to identify which food and diet constituents should be used as dietary supplements based on modification of health and nutritionIncorporates contributions from an international team of authors with varying areas of expertise related to dairy and nutrition. This comprehensive book is divided into three sections and presents a balanced overview of dairy’s impact on nutrition from infancy to adulthood