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Dietary Interventions in Gastrointestinal Diseases: Foods, Nutrients and Dietary Supplements provides valuable insights into the agents that affect metabolism and other health-related conditions in the gastrointestinal system. It provides nutritional treatment options for those suffering from gastrointestinal diseases including Crohn´s Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and Allergies, among others. Information is presented on a variety of foods, including herbs, fruits, soy and olive oil, thus showing that changes in intake can change antioxidant and disease preventing non-nutrients and affect gastrointestinal health and/or disease promotion.

This book serves as a valuable resource for biomedical researchers who focus on identifying the causes of gastrointestinal diseases and food scientists targeting health-related product development.

Provides information on agents that affect metabolism and other health-related conditions in the gastrointestinal tract
Explores the impact of composition, including differences based on country of origin and processing techniques to highlight compositional differences and their effect on the gastrointestinal tract
Addresses the most positive results from dietary interventions using bioactive foods to impact gastrointestinal diseases, including reduction of inflammation and improved function of organs

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A. Background and overview of diet and GI tract health 1. Plant family, carvacrol and putative protection in gastric cancer 2. The Physics of Fiber in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Laxation, Antidiarrheal, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome 3. Dietary interventions and Inflammatory Bowel Disease 4. The Gastrointestinal system and obesity 5.Constipation: a symptom of chronic food intolerance? 6. Food, Nutrients and Dietary Supplements in Management of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DBGIs), formerly Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGIDs) 7. Vitamin D and Quality of Life of Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome

B. Nutrition and GI tract 8. Sealing the leaky gut represents a beneficial mechanism of zinc intervention for alcoholic liver disease 9. Exclusive Enteral Nutrition in Children with Crohn Disease: A Focused Nutritional Intervention 10. Gut Microbes in liver diseases: Dietary intervention for promoting hepatic health

C. Probiotics, prebiotics, symbiotics in intestinal functions 11. Feasible options to control colonization of enteric pathogens with designed synbiotics 13. The Role of Prebiotics in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 14. Probiotics from Food Products and Gastrointestinal Health 15. Prebiotics for gastrointestinal infections and acute diarrhea 16. Probiotics and applications to constipation

D. Microbes and GI tract 17. New functional properties of fermented rice bran (FRB) in food processing and intestinal bowel disease model mice 18. Zataria multiflora and gastrointestinal tract disorders

E. Foods and Macro dietary materials in GI function 19. Influence of the cocoa-enriched diet on the intestinal immune system and microbiota 20. High fiber diets in gastrointestinal tract diseases 21. Dietary interventions in fatty liver 22. Rice bran usage in diarrhea 23. Milk Bacteria and Gastrointestinal Tract: Microbial Composition of Milk 24. Polyphenols in the prevention of Ulcerative colitis: A revisit

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