Beschreibung
Chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer's Disease have threatened human health for a long time and still remain daunting challenges. As consumer demand for preventing chronic diseases increases, natural food products have drawn special attention in the global markets. With the growing interest in food intervention, research has been widely concerned with applying natural food products such as polyphenols, polysaccharides, peptides, and probiotics in chronic disease prevention and investigating their mechanisms and will attract much more attention in the future. This book mainly introduces the intervention effects of anthocyanins, dietary fiber, tea extracts, protein peptides, probiotics and other foodborne active substances onchronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. This book is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and medical workers engaged in chronic diseases.