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Olive oil and health / edited by José L. Quiles, M. Carmen Ramírez-Tortosa and Parveen Yaqoob.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006Copyright date: 2006Description: 1 online resource (xix, 381 pages) : illustrations, maps, chartsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Other title:
  • Olive oil & health [Cover title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Olive oil and health.DDC classification:
  • 613.2/84 23
LOC classification:
  • QP752.O42 O45 2006eb
Online resources: Also available in print format.
Contents:
Olive Oil in Mediterranean Food / José Mataix and Francisco Javier Barbancho -- Chemical Composition, Types and Characteristics of Olive Oil / M. Carmen Ramírez-Tortosa, Sergio Granados and José L. Quiles -- Total Antioxidant Capacity of Olive Oils / Nicoletta Pellegrini and Maurizio Battino -- Effect of Frying and Thermal Oxidation on Olive Oil and Food Quality / Francisco J. Sánchez-Muniz and Sara Bastida -- Antioxidant Properties of Olive Oil Phenolics / Francesco Visioli, Simona Grande, Paola Bogani and Claudio Galli -- Olive Oil and Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress : Studies on Adriamycin Toxicity, Physical Exercise and Ageing / José L. Quiles, Julio J. Ochoa, Jesús R. Huertas, Magdalena López-Frías and José Mataix -- Epidemiology of Olive Oil and Cardiovascular Disease / Marika Massaro, Egeria Scoditti, Maria Annunziata Carluccio and Raffaele De Caterina -- Olive Oil, Blood Lipids and Postprandial Lipaemia / Javier S. Perona and Valentina Ruiz-Gutiérrez -- Effect of Olive Oil on Cardiovascular Risk Factor, LDL Oxidation and Atherosclerosis Development / M. Dolores Mesa, Concepción M. Aguilera, Cesar L. Ramirez-Tortosa, Angel Gil and M. Carmen Ramirez-Tortosa -- Olive Oil and Haemostasis / José López-Miranda, Angeles Blanco Molina and Francisco Pérez-Jiménez -- Monounsaturated Fat in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Diabetes / John Wright -- Olive Oil and Immune Function / Parveen Yaqoob -- Olive Oil and Regulation of Gastrointestinal Function / Mariano Mañas, M. Dolores Yago and Emilio Martínez-Victoria -- The Effect of Olive Oil on Inflammatory Bowel Disease / Xavier Llor, Eduard Cabré and Miquel A. Gassull -- Olive Oil, and Other Dietary Lipids, in Cancer : Experimental Approaches / Eduard Escrich, Montserrat Solanas and Raquel Moral.
Abstract: Discussions on the various health promoting and disease preventing properties of olive oils and its components are presented, with focus on cardiovascular diseases, neoplasms and diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Also, chapters on the chemical composition and physicochemical properties of olive oils, including the various methods used to analyse them, are presented.
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Discussions on the various health promoting and disease preventing properties of olive oils and its components are presented, with focus on cardiovascular diseases, neoplasms and diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Also, chapters on the chemical composition and physicochemical properties of olive oils, including the various methods used to analyse them, are presented.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Olive Oil in Mediterranean Food / José Mataix and Francisco Javier Barbancho -- Chemical Composition, Types and Characteristics of Olive Oil / M. Carmen Ramírez-Tortosa, Sergio Granados and José L. Quiles -- Total Antioxidant Capacity of Olive Oils / Nicoletta Pellegrini and Maurizio Battino -- Effect of Frying and Thermal Oxidation on Olive Oil and Food Quality / Francisco J. Sánchez-Muniz and Sara Bastida -- Antioxidant Properties of Olive Oil Phenolics / Francesco Visioli, Simona Grande, Paola Bogani and Claudio Galli -- Olive Oil and Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress : Studies on Adriamycin Toxicity, Physical Exercise and Ageing / José L. Quiles, Julio J. Ochoa, Jesús R. Huertas, Magdalena López-Frías and José Mataix -- Epidemiology of Olive Oil and Cardiovascular Disease / Marika Massaro, Egeria Scoditti, Maria Annunziata Carluccio and Raffaele De Caterina -- Olive Oil, Blood Lipids and Postprandial Lipaemia / Javier S. Perona and Valentina Ruiz-Gutiérrez -- Effect of Olive Oil on Cardiovascular Risk Factor, LDL Oxidation and Atherosclerosis Development / M. Dolores Mesa, Concepción M. Aguilera, Cesar L. Ramirez-Tortosa, Angel Gil and M. Carmen Ramirez-Tortosa -- Olive Oil and Haemostasis / José López-Miranda, Angeles Blanco Molina and Francisco Pérez-Jiménez -- Monounsaturated Fat in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Diabetes / John Wright -- Olive Oil and Immune Function / Parveen Yaqoob -- Olive Oil and Regulation of Gastrointestinal Function / Mariano Mañas, M. Dolores Yago and Emilio Martínez-Victoria -- The Effect of Olive Oil on Inflammatory Bowel Disease / Xavier Llor, Eduard Cabré and Miquel A. Gassull -- Olive Oil, and Other Dietary Lipids, in Cancer : Experimental Approaches / Eduard Escrich, Montserrat Solanas and Raquel Moral.

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