The Healthiest Diet for You
Scientific Aspects
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Beschreibung
The Healthiest Diet for You: Scientific Aspects is unique in a sense because it focuses on the most recent advances in Nutrition, Metabolism, and Genetics that are the basic components of Personalized Nutrition. The book also emphasizes the importance of evolutionary aspects of diet and exercise and the need to select foods that are consistent with the evolutionary aspects of diet because these are the foods that contain the nutrients that our genes are programmed to respond. This book is the antidote to ultra-processed foods and imitation foods that are proinflammatory and contribute to increases in chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease. It is a book for Health! The aim of the book is to provide readers with the basic factual information necessary to comprehend the enormity and potential effects of nutrients and foods on overall health and well-being. This book should be of interest to the educated public, teachers, health professionals, physicians, medical students, nutritionists, dietitians, historians and policy makers.
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Artemis P. Simopoulos
Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., is the Founder and President of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, which is a nonprofit educational organization in Washington, D.C., established in 1990. As a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, with a major in Chemistry, and a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine, she is a physician and endocrinologist whose research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was conducted on the nutritional aspects of genetic and endocrine disorders, the evolutionary aspects of diet and fatty acids, and the importance of a balanced ratio of omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids in health and disease, and in growth and development. Dr. Simopoulos is a world-renowned researcher on essential fatty acids, and she was also a nutritional adviser for the Office of Consumer Affairs at the White House. She is the author of The Omega Diet; The Healing Diet and has completed a chapter for the Encyclopedia of UNESCO, on “Omega-3, Omega-6, Omega-9 Fatty Acids: Sources, Metabolism and Supplements.” She is currently a Consulting Editor for Lifestyle Genomics. Dr. Simopoulos has edited over 60 books and journal supplements, in addition to publishing over 370 scientific papers. She has received many awards, and has acted as a Visiting Professor and Keynote Speaker worldwide.
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evolutionary aspects of diet ultra-processed and imitation foods inflammation and oxidative stress in adults