Indian and Mediterranean Traditional Dietetics: An Historical Overview. Traditional Systems of Medicine in India: A Holistic Approach to Health. Principles of Ayurveda for Food, Nutrition, and Health. The Quest for Longevity in Ayurveda: Dietetic and Lifestyle Advice. The Principles of Diet Therapy in the Unani System of Medicine. Traditional Indian Concepts of Nutrition: Toward an Integrative Approach. The Pillars of Western Nutritional Science. Nutrients: The Essence of Life. The Role of Nutraceuticals. The Mediterranean Diet from Ancel Keys to the Present: Epidemiological Studies on Selected Populations and Practical Applications in the Modern Cultural Context. Balancing the Food and the Balanced Food. Healing Influences of Spices. Healing Properties of Food. Conclusion. Crossing Communities and Environments: Rethinking Diets from an Intercultural Perspective. Acknowledgments. Glossary.
Luisella Verotta, master degree in chemistry, is a senior
assistant professor of organic chemistry and adjunct professor of
natural products chemistry at the University of Milan, Italy.
Verotta is a member of the Faculty of Science and Technology
teaching staff. Her main research studies are in the realm of
bioactive natural products, aimed at obtaining lead compounds for
the development of new therapeutic agents, particularly
noncytotoxic chemopreventive agents and antimalarial compounds. She
has pursued parallel lines of investigations, such as the synthesis
of compounds of pharmaceutical relevance based on natural
scaffolds, the study of their medicinal chemistry, and the
mechanism of activity. Recent researches are based on the synthesis
of new entities inspired by natural products to produce new
functional biomaterials for biomedical and food applications or as
nutraceuticals. She has been a visiting scientist in many Third
World countries, introducing young researchers to the phytochemical
study of medicinal plants. She is an extramural phytochemical
expert for the Centre for Orientative Education (COE), an Italian
NGO that fosters and supports projects in Third world countries
(TWC) for the sustainable use of natural resources. She has
authored and coauthored more than 110 research papers (including
full papers, book chapters, patents) and more than 110
communications to congresses, including poster presentations, oral
communications, and invited and plenary lectures. She holds
research contracts with several companies interested in the
discovery of new bioactive natural products and acts as a reviewer
of several international scientific journals. She is a member of
the editorial board of Fitoterapia (Elsevier). For CRC Press/Taylor
& Francis Group, she coedited Herbal Principles in Cosmetics:
Properties and Mechanisms of Action in 2010.
Maria Pia Macchi is an anthropologist member of the
International Society of Et
..". this book is a welcome arrival. It is a book led by
Mediterranean researchers and joined by Indian researchers. They
have explored together the wisdom of Indian dietary and nutritional
knowledge. And the focus has not been just on ingredients and
recipes for wellness. Rather, it begins with the underlying
theories of nutrition, the evidence, and personalised application,
as a basis for expanding understanding of how nutrition can be
culturally based, and locally sourced to address health prevention
and health promotion needs in a personalised way for vast sectors
of the global population. Accordingly, this will become a landmark
book, opening the way to a new generation of research into Indian
and South and Southeast Asian nutritional theory and traditions -
with implications leading all the way back to the Mediterranean and
its global diaspora."
--Professor Gerard Bodeker, Chair, Global Initiative for
Traditional Systems of Health, Oxford, UK; Deptartment of Primary
Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford; and Dept of
Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University,
New York, USA
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