Antioxidants in nutrition, health, and disease / John M.C. Gutteridge and Barry Halliwell.
By: Gutteridge, John M. C
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Contributor(s): Halliwell, Barry.
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BookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994Description: vi, 143 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0198549024.Subject(s): Free radicals (Chemistry) -- Pathophysiology | Antioxidants -- Therapeutic use | Free Radicals (Chemistry) | Oxidizing agentsDDC classification: 616.07 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 616.07 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00115998 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store | 616.07 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00095984 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest about the use of `antioxidant' nutritional supplements. Do they really defend the body against diseases? Should we all be taking vitamin E, vitamin C, or more of certain polyunsaturated fats? Written by two leading experts in the field of free radicals in biology and medicine, this book unravels the confusion caused by many nutrition-related claims, and clarifies the situation over whether maintaining high intakes of vitamins, minerals, and other food consituents really does help protect against life-threatening diseases.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-138) and index.
Oxygen, the breath of life or oxygen, the first toxic oxidizing air pollutant -- Appendix to Chapter 1: Cholesterol, saturated and unsaturated fats. What do they do in the body? -- Metals and oxygen: respiration, oxidation and oxygen toxicity -- Antioxidants: elixirs of life or media hype? -- Antioxidant vitamins and nutrients -- Appendix to Chapter 4: Clinical epidemiology. What it can and cannot tell us -- Oxidative stress -- Appendix to Chapter 5: Human phagocytes: useful dealers of death and destruction -- Free radicals and antioxidants in ageing and disease: fact or fantasy? -- Free radicals and cardiovascular disease.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Oxygen, the breath of life or oxygen, the first toxic oxidizing air pollutant
- 2 Metals and oxygen: Respiration, oxidation, and oxygen toxicity
- 3 Antioxidants: elixirs of life or media hype
- 4 Antioxidant vitamins and nutrients
- 5 Oxidative stress
- 6 Free radicals and antioxidants in aging and disease: Fact or fantasy?
- 7 Free radicals and cardiovascular disease