Food And Health

Big Food, Food Systems, and Global Health

1 Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Department of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Unite...

Food, Nutrition and Health

Food and health longevity.

Japan has the longest life expectancy in the world. It was an average 85.59 years for women and 78.64 years for men and 77.2 years for women and 71.9 years for men in average health expectancy in 2004. As the diet becomes more westernized, the number of patients with diabetic, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular diseases due to the metabolic syndrome is increasing. In 2002, our university was s...

Food Health in the View of Islam

Background: The instinct and natural tendency to eat food is an undeniable fact in human and all human beings, even the messengers of Allah and Infallible Imams (A.S) need it in order to keep themselves healthy. Methods: In this review study, using the teachings of the Holy Quran and other Islamic texts, the importance and role of food and healthy nutrition and its role in elevating human being...

Food in Health and Disease

Cassell's series of Clinical Manuals would not have been complete without a work dealing with this subject; and if this volume does not add much to the information given byexisting treatises, yet it is much to be commended for the excellent arrangement of its contents, which, under the two main heads of the title, are subdivided into all necessary detail. It seems inevitable that writers on Foo...