Functional analysis of food components to prevent vascular-related diseases

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (7) ◽  
pp. 42-44
Author(s):  
Katsuko Kajiya
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Vascular Diseases ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Food Components ◽  
Beneficial Impact ◽  
Prevention Potential

A Japan-based team of researchers is looking into the disease prevention potential of certain foods, with a focus on the Sakurajima radish, and how it could have a beneficial impact on heart health, specifically cardiovascular health. Given that vascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, the importance of this work cannot be underestimated. At the Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Food Sciences and Biotechnology, Kagoshima University, Japan, Dr. Katsuko Kajiya and her team are researching the bioregulatory functions of agricultural products and how they can be beneficial to health. The researchers are working to scientifically elucidate the function of foods, looking at the disease prevention mechanisms and physiological functions of certain food ingredients.

scholarly journals Functionality of Food Components and Emerging Technologies

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Charis M. Galanakis
Keyword(s):  
Functional Properties ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Critical Properties ◽  
Technological Properties ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Food Components

This review article introduces nutrition and functional food ingredients, explaining the widely cited terms of bioactivity, bioaccessibility, and bioavailability. The factors affecting these critical properties of food components are analyzed together with their interaction and preservation during processing. Ultimately, the effect of emerging (non-thermal) technologies on different food components (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, minerals, vitamins, polyphenols, glucosinolates, polyphenols, aroma compounds, and enzymes) is discussed in spite of preserving their functional properties. Non-thermal technologies can maintain the bioavailability of food components, improve their functional and technological properties, and increase the recovery yields from agricultural products. However, the optimization of operational parameters is vital to avoid degradation of macromolecules and the oxidation of labile compounds.

Structural-functional analysis and efficiency of system of production of organic agricultural products

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (77) ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Alexander Saifetdinov ◽  
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Polina Puzeychuk ◽  
Alexander Ulyanov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Products

scholarly journals Biomarker-estimated flavan-3-ol intake is associated with lower blood pressure in cross-sectional analysis in EPIC Norfolk

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier I. Ottaviani ◽  
Abigail Britten ◽  
Debora Lucarelli ◽  
Robert Luben ◽  
Angela A. Mulligan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Systolic Blood Pressure ◽  
Vascular Function ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Vascular Diseases ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Cvd Risk ◽  
Lower Systolic Blood Pressure ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Salt Reduction

Abstract Flavan-3-ols are a group of bioactive compounds that have been shown to improve vascular function in intervention studies. They are therefore of great interest for the development of dietary recommendation for the prevention of cardio-vascular diseases. However, there are currently no reliable data from observational studies, as the high variability in the flavan-3-ol content of food makes it difficult to estimate actual intake without nutritional biomarkers. In this study, we investigated cross-sectional associations between biomarker-estimated flavan-3-ol intake and blood pressure and other CVD risk markers, as well as longitudinal associations with CVD risk in 25,618 participants of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC) Norfolk cohort. High flavan-3-ol intake, achievable as part of an habitual diet, was associated with a significantly lower systolic blood pressure (− 1.9 (− 2.7; − 1.1) mmHg in men and − 2.5 (− 3.3; − 1.8) mmHg in women; lowest vs highest decile of biomarker), comparable to adherence to a Mediterranean Diet or moderate salt reduction. Subgroup analyses showed that hypertensive participants had stronger inverse association between flavan-3-ol biomarker and systolic blood pressure when compared to normotensive participants. Flavanol intake could therefore have a role in the maintenance of cardiovascular health on a population scale.

scholarly journals Prevalence, Correlates, and Prognosis of Peripheral Artery Disease in Rural Ecuador—Rationale, Protocol, andPhase IResults of a Population-Based Survey: An Atahualpa Project-Ancillary Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar H. Del Brutto ◽  
Mark J. Sedler ◽  
Robertino M. Mera ◽  
Pablo R. Castillo ◽  
Elizabeth H. Cusick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase I ◽  
Peripheral Artery Disease ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Ankle Brachial Index ◽  
Vascular Diseases ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Test Reliability ◽  
Phase Iii ◽  
Peripheral Artery ◽  
Artery Disease

Background. Little is known on the prevalence of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in developing countries.Study design. Population-based study in Atahualpa. InPhase I, the Edinburgh claudication questionnaire (ECQ) was used for detection of suspected symptomatic PAD; persons with a negative ECQ but a pulse pressure ≥65 mmHg were suspected of asymptomatic PAD. InPhase II, the ankle-brachial index will be used to test reliability of screening instruments and to determine PAD prevalence. InPhase III, participants will be followed up to estimate the relevance of PAD as a predictor of vascular outcomes.Results. DuringPhase I, 665 Atahualpa residents aged ≥40 years were enrolled (mean age: 59.5 ± 12.6 years, 58% women). A poor cardiovascular health status was noticed in 464 (70%) persons of which 27 (4%) had a stroke and 14 (2%) had ischemic heart disease. Forty-four subjects (7%) had suspected symptomatic PAD and 170 (26%) had suspected asymptomatic PAD. Individuals with suspected PAD were older, more often women, and had a worse cardiovascular profile than those with nonsuspected PAD.Conclusions. Prevalence of suspected PAD in this underserved population is high. Subsequent phases of this study will determine whether prompt detection of PAD is useful to reduce the incidence of catastrophic vascular diseases in the region.

scholarly journals Nutrigenomics: future for sustenance

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prem Lal ◽  
Remya Ramachandran ◽  
P. T. James ◽  
Rajeevan K. ◽  
Aju Ravindran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Actual Knowledge ◽  
Food Components ◽  
Bioactive Food Components ◽  
Prevention And Cure

Nutrigenomics deals with the effect of foods and food constituents on gene expression. It is a new concept in disease prevention and cure. Nutrigenomics conveys how nutrients influence our body to express genes, whereas nutrigenetics refers to how our body responds to nutrients. The various bioactive food components can alter the gene expression mechanisms. But our actual knowledge is so insufficient that the only use of such information may help to satisfy our imagination. If science could arrive at some more precise facts, that would have vast applications in medicine.

“Now even Television is Promoting Health?” On the Intertwined History of Television and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the German Democratic Republic, 1950s–1970s

Gesnerus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-278
Author(s):  
Stefan Offermann
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
German Democratic Republic ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Mass Medium ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
History Of

This paper argues that the historical trajectories of television and cardiovascular disease prevention in the German Democratic Republic are interlocking. These diseases were largely understood as caused by an unhealthy modern lifestyle. Healthcare experts were convinced that health education was an effective strategy to persuade the population to follow a healthy lifestyle. With its rise as a new mass medium, health educators increasingly relied on television as a means to put their message across. Yet the new medium itself was a target of health education measures as excessive TV consumption was considered a potential threat to cardiovascular health. This article deals with the history of health-related problematizations of TV consumption. In the 1950s and early 1960s, during an animated discourse on the strain of a modern lifestyle television was considered a potential source of overstimulation of the nervous system. As this article argues, this interpretation was undermined by a modified concept of TV consumption within the discourse of empirical audience research.

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