Diet, Inflammation, and Health

James Hebert, Lorne Hofseth, Nitin Shivappa
Elsevier
926 pages
ISBN: 9780128221303
May 2022

This book introduces concepts of inflammation, the role of acute inflammatory responses in good health, and the association of chronic systemic inflammation with mental distress, cognitive decline, and chronic diseases, ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer. It also describes the pathophysiology of inflammation and its effects on insulin insensitivity and blunted immune response to carcinogenesis. Students, researchers and allied health care professionals working in dietetics and medicine will benefit from this reference and its recommendations on areas where future research is needed.