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Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Dietetics & nutrition
Oncological Functional Nutrition: Phytochemicals and Medicinal
Plants presents the anticancer activities, metabolism, mechanism of
action, doses, and sources of various phytochemicals and medicinal
plants. Broken into five parts, this book addresses cancer
epidemiology, molecular and therapeutic bases of cancer, macro and
micronutrients in cancer prevention and treatment, phytochemicals
in the cancer treatment, and medical plants as potential functional
foods or resources for the obtention of metabolites with anticancer
activity. Written for nutritionists, food scientists, health
professionals, oncologists, endocrinologists, natural product
chemists, ethnobotanists, chemists, pharmacists, biochemists, and
students studying relating fields, Oncological Functional
Nutrition: Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants will be a useful
reference for those interested in learning more about functional
nutrition and cancer.
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