| Author(s) | Ronald Ross Watson, Ram B. Singh, Toru Takahashi |
 | Year | 2019 |
 | Pages | 732 |
 | Language | English
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 | Format | PDF |
 | Size | 36.5 MB
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 | Publisher | Academic Press |
 | ISBN | 0128131489, 978-0128131480, B07KC8T4GR
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The Role of Functional Food Security in Global Health
presents a collective approach to food security through the use of
functional foods as a strategy to prevent under nutrition and related
diseases. This approach reflects the views of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the
World Heart Federation and the American Heart Association who advise
Mediterranean, Paleolithic, plant food based diets, and European
vegetarian diets for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. In
addition, the book also emphasizes the inclusion of spices, herbs and
millets, as well as animal foods.
This book will be a great
resource to the food industry as it presents the most efficient ways to
use technology to manufacture slowly absorbed, micronutrient rich
functional foods by blending foods that are rich in healthy nutrients.
- Provides greater knowledge on functional food security
- Highlights the necessary changes to the western diet that are needed to achieve food security
- Explains the utility and necessity of functional food security in the prevention of noncommunicable diseases
- Presents policy changes in food production for farmers and the larger food industry
- Offers suggestions on what can be done to enhance functional food production while simultaneously decreasing production costs
