Functional Foods

  • Publication Year: 2018
  • ISBN: 9781773612782
  • Price: $160
  • Publisher: Delve Publishing
  • Binding Type: Hardcover

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As consumers worldwide become more health conscious, the demand for health-promoting foods and food components is expected to grow. This book explores these conflicting ideas: that of developing new food products, and that of keeping them familiar enough to ensure acceptance and consumption. The book covers functional foods from a multidisciplinary perspective focusing on safety, legal/policy aspects, economy, public perceptions and ethics. This book is essential reading for food scientists, researchers, and professionals who are developing, researching, or working with functional foods and ingredients in the food, drug, and dietary supplement industry.

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Dr. Sara D. Garduno-Diaz has a background in nutrition with a PhD in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom; she has further specialized in Sports Nutrition with the International Olympics Committee, Switzerland. Dr Sara has worked as Research Fellow for several EU-funded research projects and was awarded research grants from CONACYT (Mexico) and the BBSRC (UK). She is currently Senior Nutrition Consultant at Your Choice Nutrition in Kuwait, where she has been working on functional nutrition and wellness since 2014. Dr Sara sits on the editorial board of various international journals, including the Journal of Obesity and Weight Management, E Cronicon Nutrition, Research in Health Science, Insights in Nutrition and Dietetics and Nourish, for whom she is the Executive Editor. She is the author of several peer-reviewed publications and a book: Diet, Ethnicity and the Metabolic Syndrome (Saarbrucken, Germany: 2013). Her research interests include the dietary patterns of migrant populations and their impact on health, as well as investigating the environmental factors that influence food selection.
Dr. Garduño-Diaz is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Overseas Dietetics Association, Professionals in Nutrition for Exercise & Sport, and the World Public Health Nutrition Association.
With over 10 years of experience in the field of nutrition, and having lived and worked in various continents, Dr Sara’s approach to food is one of integrating strategies to design individual programs based on her client’s needs. Dr Sara advocates for real food and the art of eating.