Full Description
Nutrition and Women's Health: Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals, and Integrative Strategies delves into the critical role nutrition plays in human health, highlighting its growing importance among healthcare providers, research scientists, nutritionists, and dietitians. Despite significant progress, there remains a lack of targeted research specifically addressing women's nutritional needs at various life stages. This book aims to fill that gap, offering comprehensive insights into the benefits of nutraceuticals and functional foods for disease prevention, treatment, and recurrence through different phases of a woman's life.
The book covers a wide range of topics, including nutritional modules for teenage nutrition, the interaction of sex hormones, menopause management, polycystic ovary syndrome, fertility, and bone, skin, and heart health. It emphasizes the underlying causes of various pathophysiological conditions linked to nutrition and provides practical diet plans to help avoid health issues across various age groups. Expert authors present evidence-based strategies for improving women's health through nutrition, making this book an invaluable resource for professionals and individuals alike.
Contents
1. Nutrition in adolescent, puberty and young girls
2. Nutrition: Women health and ageing
3. Nutritional Strategies: Women sex hormone and interactions
4. Nutrition in women fertility and developmental stages
5. Nutrition in Pregnancy and Breast Feeding Women
6. Nutritional management in polycystic ovary syndrome
7. Impact of nutrition in infertility to menopause and vaginal infection
8. Nutrition and gynecologic cancer: Prevention, treatment and recurrence
9. Nutrition in bone health
10. Nutrition and hearth health
11. Nutrition in skin health
12. Role of nutrients in gestational diabetes management
13. Nutrition in women weight management
14. Women neurological disorders: Novel nutritional approaches
15. Nutritional requirement of the pediatric and geriatric population
16. Current clinical investigations in nutraceuticals development
