Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept is one of the first books to focus on the role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in unhealthy diets.

Part One identifies the missing essential ratio of competing essential fatty acids in the human diet and relates them to the upsurge of modern chronic disease and associated health costs. The authors also explain the scientific basis of the Columbus Concept and the evidence supporting the rehabilitation of dietary/blood cholesterol.

Part Two discusses the essential ingredients in a daily diet that make blood vessels healthy and resistant.

Part Three introduces the functional part of the diet that brings about health benefits and healthy blood vessels.

Part Four details the health benefits of wild-type foods in various cultures.

Part Five investigates the possibility for novel sources for health promotion.

Contents

I. The Columbus Concept: Scope and Limitation

1. Wild-type Land-based Diet in Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention: The LDL-CC:HDL-CC model
2. The Japanese Experience: high cholesterol is not an important risk factor of all-cause mortality
3. High Omega-6:Omega 3 ratio-the Israeli Experience
4. Omega-6/omega-3 fatty acid ratio is important for health: lessons from genetically modified cells and animals
5. Tissue Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids in health and disease.
6. Wild-type food and coronary heart disease: EU and US clinical and financial impact models
7. World perspective of wild type diet in health promotion

II. Essential Nutrients in the Wild: Health Benefits

8. The "wild-type" egg. An empirical approach to a reference pattern for dietary fatty acids in human nature
9. The essentiality of eicosapentaenoic acid in breast milk during human lactation
10. The natural fatty acid composition of eggs of wild birds and the consequences of domestication.
11. Simultaneous enrichment of eggs with PUFAs and antioxidants: prospects and limitations.
12. Egg compositionvs vs. CVD risk: from Wild-Traditional to designer- eggs vs. Lipid, Endothelial and Inflammatory Hypotheses
13. Omega 3 fatty acids: Studies in avians
14. Chia as a new source of _-3 fatty acids: Nutritional Comparison with other raw materials and its Advantage when producing _-3 enriched eggs
15. Evaluating the biological activity and effects on human health of fish oil and its omega-3 fatty acids
16. Omega-3 fatty acids and Mediterranean diet in the prevention and treatment of Cardiovascular disease
17. Dietary prevention of coronary heart disease
18. Fatty acids, insulin resistance and diabetes
19. Fatty acids in causation and therapy of metabolic syndrome
20. Immune modulation and cancer resistance: Enhancements by omega-3 fatty acids
21. Omega-3 fatty acids in physical and mental health and disease.
22. Dietary Prevention of Adult Macular Degeneration: Omega-3 fatty acids in prevention of macular degeneration
23. Promoting eye and skin health through intake of the natural carotenoid lutein
24. Calcium phosphate: Nutrition in prevention of early childhood dental caries

III. Functional Components in the Wild: Health Benefits

25. Natural antioxidants in land- and marine-based food: risk reduction.
26. CHIA seeds and the Columbus concept: bakery and animal products
27. Health effects of foods rich in polyphenols.
28. Polyphenols and Immunity
29. Flavanoid-rich Dietary Supplementals' Influence on heart failure.
30. Carotenoids In Prevention of Diseases, and Lycopene
31. Dietary Intake of the Lycopene and Risk of Prostate Cancer

IV. Wild-type Food in Different Cultures: Health Benefits

32. Local wild foods in the Mediterranean Countries : from micronutrients to healthy effects
33. Changing the Spanish-Mediterranean diet: Effects on plasma lipids
34. Lebanonese traditional diets and health effects
35. 4 Fats and fatty acids in nutrition of the Iranian people
36. Southeast Asian diets and health promotion

V. The Columbus Concept: The Market Approach

37. Columbus feed around the world: selection of ingredients and potential influence on future international strategy for crop selection
38. Modification of a national diet and lifestyle towards wild-type foods: The Cuban experience in promoting health
39. Studies on the effects of diets realistic for westernized people on plasma lipoprotein composition, metabolism and atherosclerosis in vervet monkeys

Index

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