The increasing rate of autoimmune disorders and cancer in recent years has been a
controversial issue in all aspects of prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Among …

Halophytes and xerophytes, plants with adequate tolerance to high salinity with strong ability
to survive in drought ecosystem, have been recognized for their nutritional and medicinal …

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

Obesity as part of metabolic syndrome is a major lifestyle disorder throughout the world.
Current drug treatments for obesity produce small and usually unsustainable decreases in …

Maternal and pediatric obesity has risen dramatically over recent years, and is a known
predictor of adverse long-term metabolic outcomes in offspring. However, which particular …

This work reports the effect of dietary Salba (chia) seed rich in n-3 α-linolenic acid on the
morphological and metabolic aspects involved in adipose tissue dysfunction and the …

Previous studies have reported on the glucose and lipid-lowering effects of ferulic acid (FA)
but its anti-obesity potential has not yet been firmly established. This study investigated the …

The chronic and low-grade inflammation induced by obesity seem to be the “first hit” to
retinopathy associated to diabetes type 2. Herein, we hypothesized that omega-3 fatty acids …

Purpose Rats fed a long-term sucrose-rich diet (SRD) developed adipose tissue dysfunction.
In the adipose tissue of these SRD-fed rats, the present study analyzed the possible …

Benefits of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on a number of clinical
disorders, including autoimmune diseases, are widely reported in the literature. One major …