Nutrigenomic analysis of food functionality

Nutrigenomic approaches for benefit-risk analysis of foods and food components: defining markers of health.

To be able to perform a comprehensive and rigorous benefit-risk analysis of individual food components, and of foods, a number of fundamental questions need to be addressed first. These include whether it is feasible to detect all relevant biological effects of foods and individual food components, how such effects can confidently be categorised into benefits and risks in relation to health and...

Functionality of nutrients and thermal treatments of food.

Since discovering fire man has used heat to modify the sensory properties and to preserve foodstuffs. Nutrients are involved in a number of reactions induced by this form of treatment. Some of these reactions are desirable, e.g. the improvement in the digestibility and the attractiveness of a food. Some reactions are undesirable because they lead to considerable nutritional loss or may result i...

woman-defined identity: analysis of selected poems of adrienne rich

the current thesis is composed in five chapters in the following fashion: chapter two encompasses the applied framework of the project in details; the methodology of carl gustav jung to explain the process of individuation, the major archetypes and their attributes and his techniques to assess the mind’s strata are all explained. moreover, the austrian psychoanalysts, heinz kohut’s models of a...

MDS Functionality Analysis

Nutrient selection through nutrigenomic approaches.

THE ABUNDANCE AND VARIETIES of nutrients in developed countries and increasingly in urban areas of transitional and developing countries presents modern humans with a conundrum: what are the best combinations of macroand micronutrients that promote health and longevity in each individual? Why and how does an individual select among foods of different compositions and amounts when they are in su...