Diet, Inflammation, and Health

Examines the roles of nutrition and inflammation as important determinants for mental distress, cognitive decline, and chronic disease

James R. Hebert (Edited by), Lorne J Hofseth (Edited by)

9780128221303, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 27 April 2022

926 pages
23.5 x 19 x 5.6 cm, 1.45 kg

Diet, Inflammation, and Health introduces concepts of inflammation, the role of acute inflammatory responses in good health, and the association of chronic systemic inflammation with mental distress, cognitive decline, and chronic diseases, ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer. The book also describes the pathophysiology of inflammation and its effects on insulin insensitivity and blunted immune response to carcinogenesis. Researchers and allied health care professionals working in dietetics and medicine, as well as students studying related fields will benefit from this reference and its recommendations on areas where future research is needed.

1. What is Inflammation? Why is it Important? 2. History of Nutrition and Inflammation 3. Nutrition, Inflammation and Immune Response 4. Resolving Acute Inflammation; How acute inflammation resolves and What Happens when Inflammation Goes Haywire 5. Diet and Chronic, Systemic, Low-Grade Inflammation 6. What constitutes an anti-inflammatory diet? How does this contrast with a pro-inflammatory diet? 7. The Role of Nutritional Epidemiology and Other Methods in Describing The Diet-Inflammation Link 8. Diet, Inflammation and the “itises? (including musculoskeletal and gastrointestinal issues) 9. Diet, Inflammation and Cancer 10. Diet, Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease 11. Diet, Inflammation and Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome 12. Inflammatory Potential of Diet on Mental Disorders and Psychosocial Stress 13. Inflammatory Potential of Diet and Aging - Including Frailty, Bone Health (density/fractures), Cataract, Frailty, and Cognitive Decline 14. Inflammatory Potential of Diet and Health Disorders Among Children 15. Inflammatory Potential of Diet and Other Aspects of Lifestyle including Physical Activity 16. Inflammatory Potential of Diet and Circadian Rhythms 17. Inflammatory potential of diet in relation to other health outcomes (e.g., sleep apnea/quality, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, NAFLD, CKD) 18. Summary of Where We Are and Implications for Future Research

Subject Areas: Fitness & diet [VFM], Food & beverage technology [TDCT]