摘要：Both nutritive and nonnutritive components of foods may slow declines in certain body functions。 Ingestion of vitamin E, an antioxidant nutrient, in amounts above current recommendations may reduc...

摘要：Despite the incomplete knowledge base on the effects of such nutrients, investigators, physicians, and regulatory bodies have promoted the use of these nutrients in the treatment of disease。 Typic...

摘要：Dr Dwyer: Dr Roberfroid, the critical issue seems to be whether functional responses do affect health in positive ways。 Could you give us some perspective on the conclusions of Commission E in Ger...

摘要：Dr Hecker: Did you evaluate cytokine release in the MIP-1- knockout mouse, and are you planning to study the situation in tumor necrosis factor- knockout mice。 Dr Beck: We are doing some of those ...

摘要：Probiotics are widely used to prepare fermented dairy products such as yogurt or freeze-dried cultures。 Several health-related effects associated with the intake of probiotics, including alleviati...

摘要：rst: I would like to emphasize that 400 companies are involved in marketing functional foods。 So functional foods are of enormous commercial value。 Are we satisfied with the existing definition f...

摘要：ABSTRACTConsiderable evidence suggests that lycopene, a carotenoid without provitamin A activity found in high concentrations in a small set of plant foods, has significant antioxidant potential in...

摘要：Dr Roberfroid: Dr Arab, what is the total amount of tomato that one must eat to be in the highest quintile group。 Dr Arab: I can tell you how much lycopene was present in the body fat of those in ...

摘要：Dr Arab: We reviewed the epidemiology of tea and cancer for a number of sites in January 1997。 There were as many studies suggesting a negative effect as a positive one, and the overwhelming effec...

摘要：ABSTRACTBreast cancer is the most common cancer in women。15% of breast cancer cases, the environment, including nutrition, is thought to play a significant role in predisposing women to this cance...

摘要：Dr Watson: Have you concluded that green tea is not involved in the soybean effect and that soybeans are not involved in the green tea effect in the various diets in China。 Dr Lamartiniere: It is ...

摘要：ABSTRACTMuch progress has been achieved by exploring the causes of the main human cancers and of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases。 Even more important has been the knowledge acquired ab...

摘要：Dr Green: The component of the diet that has been shown to have the most dramatic effect on reducing risk for chronic diseases and on longevity is caloric intake [Yu BP, Masoro EJ, Murata I, et al。...

摘要：Dr Weisburger: In the mid-1970s, just after the publication of Burnet‘s study [Burnet FM。25] on immune surveillance, we designed experiments in which we treated immunosuppressed animals to produc...

摘要：Key Words: Functional food •。 In addition, the question arises whether, in using the term functional food to help sharpen research focus on the health benefits of foods and food ingredients, t...

摘要：Sharon Ross1 From the Office of Special Nutritionals, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC。 3 Address reprint requests to S Ross, Office of Sp...

摘要：Dr Weisburger: Dr Roberfroid, can you give us the European perspective on government and regulatory activity。 Dr Roberfroid: I think we are going along the same line so far as nutrition is concern...

摘要：I want to review the visions for health that have dominated over the last century or so and present you with 4 paradigms for your consideration。 Earlier in this century, health planners started th...

摘要：John A MilnerThis conference explored several aspects of functional foods and components, including their effects on health and aging, their definition, and the use of biomarkers to monitor their c...