Obesity is gaining acceptance as a serious primary health burden that impairs the quality of
life because of its associated complications, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases …

Foods consist of a large number of different nutrients that are contained in a complex
structure. The nature of the food structure and the nutrients therein (ie, the food matrix) will …

Maintaining the high standards that made the previous editions such well-respected and
widely used references, Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology, Fourth Edition …

The digestion and metabolism of lipids continues to generate considerable scientific interest,
with food emulsions increasingly being seen as a mechanism by which lipid uptake may be …

Dairy products contribute important nutrients to our diet, including energy, calcium, protein,
and other micro-and macronutrients. However, dairy products can be high in saturated fats …

Weight loss and subsequent body weight maintenance are difficult for obese individuals
despite the wide variety of dietary regimens and approaches. A substantial body of scientific …

On a nutritional standpoint, lipids are now being studied beyond their energy content and
fatty acid (FA) profiles. Dietary FA are building blocks of a huge diversity of more complex …

In recent years, we've developed a much better grasp of the biological and other factors
associated with the development of obesity. Reflecting our evolving understanding of …

Observational studies have found that dietary calcium intake is inversely related to body
weight and body fat mass. One explanatory mechanism is that dietary calcium increases …

The oral bioavailability of lipophilic bioactive molecules can be greatly increased by
encapsulating them within engineered lipid nanoparticles (ELNs), such as micelles …