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Health education and health promotion

WebHealth education and health promotion is addressed to bachelor and masters students, scholars, practitioners, policymakers and change managers. It offers a useful guide for a variety of professional and volunteer organisations and their workers, such as health service managers and environmental health officers, community nurses and dieticians

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Integrated approaches to health

WebOne Health addresses health challenges arising from the intertwined spheres of humans, animals and ecosystems. This handbook is the product of an interdisciplinary effort to provide science-based guidance for the evaluation of One Health and other integrated approaches to health. It guides the reader through a systems approach and framework …

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Epidemiology in public health practice

WebThis book is intended for students and epidemiologists in public health practice. It was written by 20 Dutch authors with either longstanding experience or fresh enthusiasm. The editors are all affiliated with Academic Collaborative Centres for Public Health in the Netherlands, which aim to bridge the gap between policy, practice and research.

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Effect of fructans, prebiotics and fibres on the human gut …

WebThe inherent and diverse capacity of dietary fibres, nondigestible oligosaccharides (NDOs) and prebiotics to modify the gut microbiota and markedly influence health status of the host has attracted rising interest. Research and collective initiatives to determine the composition and diversity of the human gut microbiota have increased …

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Integrated approaches to health

Webhealth across these highly interlinked components1. While there is considerable literature describing the characteristics of integrated approaches to health, there are no recognised guidelines so far on how to evaluate to what extent the underlying integration contributes to constructive management of complex health problems.

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Epidemiology in public health practice

WebPart III is dedicated to successful collaboration of epidemiology with other public health disciplines such as health promotion, policy making and primary health care. This book is meant for students and epidemiologists in public health practice. It was written by 19 Dutch authors with either longstanding experience or fresh enthusiasm.

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Integrated approaches to health

WebEditors Simon R. Rüegg, Barbara Häsler and Jakob Zinsstag. One Health addresses health challenges arising from the intertwined spheres of humans, animals and ecosystems. This handbook is the product of an interdisciplinary effort to provide science-based guidance for the evaluation of One Health and other integrated approaches to health.

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Health benefits of fibre, prebiotics and probiotics: a review of

WebGastrointestinal health in regard to the gut microbiome is a rapidly emerging field and has many key components driving its emergence. Fibre, prebiotics and probiotics are all dietary components that can play a critical role in maintaining a healthy gut microflora. Fibre has long been appreciated for its influential role in cardiovascular disease, …

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Probiotic lactic acid bacteria in the gastro-intestinal tract: …

WebProbiotics: health benefits, safety and mode of action Beneficial Microbes 1(1) 13 via local cytokine regulation, particularly TGF-β-associated low-dose tolerance immunity. A strain of L. casei that inhibited the growth of pathogenic strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Listeria monocytogenes in mice led to an increase in the levels of

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8. Role of food groups and dietary patterns in heart health

WebCardiovascular disease (CVD) is a global burden and considered to be a multifactorial chronic disease. Foods are modifiable risk factors which may play a pivotal role in the development of CVD. Recent evidence emphasizing systematic reviews and meta-analyses of epidemiological and clinical trials from research on foods and dietary …

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9. Strengths and weaknesses of functional eggs for human health

WebA number of health benefits derived from the consumption of eggs enriched with omega-3, lutein, vitamin E and selenium have been clearly demonstrated in sound clinical studies and will be reviewed. For example, the consumption of omega-3 enriched eggs has been shown to have some positive effects during pregnancy and lactation of …

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Short chain fatty acids in human gut and metabolic health

WebEvidence is accumulating that short chain fatty acids (SCFA) play an important role in the maintenance of gut and metabolic health. The SCFA acetate, propionate and butyrate are produced from the microbial fermentation of indigestible carbohydrates and appear to be key mediators of the beneficial effects elicited by the gut …

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Impacts of insect consumption on human health Journal of …

WebEdible insects represent an understudied food resource that may promote human health. They characteristically contain ample protein, healthy fatty acids, minerals, and vitamins, and have been touted for their environmental benefits given their efficient resource use. While numerous in vitro, animal, and nutrient quantification studies have …

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41. Manifold health: the need to specify One Health and the …

WebIt looks like One Health (OH) is here to stay, given its endorsement at the level of policy and the way it shapes curricula of relevant scientific disciplines. This has not gone unnoticed by philosophers who critically appraise the concept and its normative assumptions (cf. Capps and Lederman, 2015; Thompson and List, 2015; Verweij and Bovenkerk, 2016). Though …

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The relationship between the phageome and human health: are

WebIn this scenario, we consider that it is important to discuss the role of these microorganisms in the equilibrium of the microbiota and how this relates to human health. To do that, this review starts by examining the role of phages as key players in bacterial communities (including those that naturally inhabit the human body), modulating the

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Handbook of public health in natural disasters

WebHandbook of public health in natural disasters Nutrition, food, remediation and preparation Human Health Handbooks, Volume 10. Editors Ronald Ross Watson, Joseph A. Tabor, John E. Ehiri and Victor R. Preedy. Published: 2015 Pages: 608. eISBN: 978-90-8686-806-3 | ISBN: 978-90-8686-257-3.

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Short chain fatty acids in human gut and metabolic health

Webhealth benefit, but data are mainly based on animal studies, whereas well-controlled human studies are limited. In this review an expert group by ILSI Europe’s Prebiotics Task Force discussed the current scientific knowledge on SCFA to consider the relationship between SCFA and gut and metabolic health with a particular focus on human evidence.

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Intestinal health

WebChapter 1: General introduction — the gastrointestinal tract, the immune system and the maintenance of health. T.A. Niewold. pp. 15

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Associating multiple mycotoxin exposure and health outcomes: …

WebMycotoxin contamination is a global challenge to food safety and population health. A diversity of adverse effects in human health such as organ damage, immunity disorders and carcinogenesis are attributed to acute and chronic exposure to mycotoxins. While there is a high likelihood of mycotoxin co-occurrence in the daily diet, multiple …

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Handbook of cheese in health Human Health Handbooks

WebHandbook of cheese in health Production, nutrition and medical sciences Human Health Handbooks, Volume 6. Editors Victor R. Preedy, Ronald Ross Watson and Vinood B. Patel. Published: 2013 Pages: 880. eISBN: 978-90-8686-766-0 …

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Impact of prebiotics and probiotics on skin health

WebThis review discusses the role of pre- and probiotics with respect to improving skin health by modulating the cutaneous microbiota. The skin ecosystem is a complex environment covered with a diverse microbiota community. These are classified as either transient or resident, where some are considered as beneficial, some essentially …

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Healthy diet and food system transformation in China

WebThe Chinese food system has expanded its focus from aiming to solve food problems to tackling current health and environmental issues. The Chinese diet has increased in quantity and improved in safety, but there is still room for improvement in terms of health and sustainability. This study used Chinese dietary data provided by the Global …

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