Main description:

Fish and Fish Oil in Health and Disease Prevention provides an authoritative review of the role of fish and fish oil intake in the promotion of human health. This up-to-date volume provides a complete examination of intake patterns as well as research evidence of intake in disease prevention and treatment.

Readers will gain knowledge ranging from the current state of fish and fish oil intake, their health promoting effects and influences on individual response, how they influence development and health maintenance through the life cycle, and their role in disease prevention and treatment. This book is an invaluable resource for all researchers working to understand the relationship between fish and human health. It is a valuable reference for nutritionists, dietitians, and health care providers.

Contents:

I: Fish and fish oil intake and recommendations

Chapter 1: Fish Intake in the United States

Chapter 2: Fish and Fish Oil in the Mediterranean Diets

Chapter 3: Recommended Intake of Fish and Fish Oils Worldwide

Chapter 4: Pregnant Women and Consumption of Fish: Where are We?

Chapter 5: Bioavailability of Lipids in Fish and Fish Oils

Chapter 6: Fish Oils in Human Nutrition: History and Current Status

II: Fish and fish oil nutrition in the life cycle

Chapter 7: Omega 3 Fatty Acids Counterbalance Actions of Omega-6 Fatty Acids

Chapter 8: Fish Consumption During Pregnancy and Anthropometric Measures at Birth

Chapter 9: Fish Oil and The Retinopathy of Prematurity

Chapter 10: Fish Oil for Physical Performance in Athletes

Chapter 11: Fish Intake and Strength in the Elderly

Chapter 12: Fish and Fish Oil for the Aging Brain

III: Fish and fish oils in health promotion and disease prevention and treatment

Chapter 13: Farmed Fish: A Valuable Source of Lipid Based Nutrients

Chapter 14: Fish and Fish Oil and the Metabolic Syndrome

Chapter 15: Dietary and Supplemental Long-Chain N3 Fatty Acids and Incident Type 2 Diabetes

Chapter 16: Seafood Consumption and Fasting Leptin and Ghrelin in Overweight and Obese

Chapter 17: Fish/Fish Oil Intake and Inflammatory Biomarkers, Endothelial Function

Chapter 18: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

Chapter 19: Salmon and Vascular Risk in Young Healthy Subjects

Chapter 20: Fish and Fish Oil for Cardiovascular Disease in Diabetes

Chapter 21: Fish Consumption and Heart Rate Variability

Chapter 22: Fish and Fish Oil and Lipoprotein Particle Number and Size

Chapter 23: Fish, Fish Oil, and Liver Cancer

Chapter 24: Brain, Fish Oil-Enriched Diet, and Sphingolipids

Chapter 25: Liver Disease and Parenteral Fish Oil

Chapter 26: Fish Oil Supplementation and Cancer Cachexia

Chapter 27: Utilization of Fish Oil for the Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

Chapter 28: Dietary Fish Oil Protects Against Gentamicin, Cisplatin, Uranyl Nitrate, and Nitric Oxide Donor/Metabolite-Induced Nephrotoxicity and Oxidative Damage in Rat Kidney

IV: Unique sources

Chapter 29: Seafood Proteins and Human Health

Chapter 30: Metabolic Effects of Krill Oil

Chapter 31: Risks and Possible Health Effects of Raw Fish Intake