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Prebiotic Foods for a Healthy Gut: Scientific Studies to Manage Metabolic Disorders

by Mini K. Sheth , Shruti Dwivedi
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781774918524
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Apple Academic Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Apple Academic Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 324
  • Original Price: USD 240.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 649 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Alternative Therapies

Presents prebiotics as food component and the potential of various prebiotics and their safety, proven health implications, mechanisms of action, and use in consumption. Overviews highly dynamic gut molecular ecology and diversity. Covers topics including certain prebiotics as functional foods, prebiotic regulatory issues, etc.

Mini K. Sheth, PhD, is the Head of the Department of Foods and Nutrition at the Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. With over 35 years of teaching and research experience, she specializes in prebiotics and gut health, clinical dietetics, and food safety. She has published more than 80 papers and has applied for patents for prebiotic cakes and synbiotic beverages and holds copyrights for booklets on fructooligosaccharides-added sweets, prebiotics, and diabetes management. She has held important positions including RD board member of the Indian Dietetic Association; President of the Indian Dietetic Association (Gujarat Chapter); Deputy Director of a WHO collaborating center, FN Department; and Deputy Coordinator of a UGC/DSA SAP III program. She has undertaken sponsored projects and has received many awards and recognitions. She has a PhD in Foods and Nutrition and has been a registered dietitian since 1986.

Shruti Dwivedi, PhD, is a researcher and health coach. She has been awarded a Young Scientist Award by the Universal Society of Foods and Nutrition and the Swedish South Asian Network for Fermented Foods for her research work on the gut-brain axis. She has published papers in peerreviewed international and national journals, and her work on the gut and mental health connection has been featured in The Times of India, Gujarat Samachar, and Sandesh Daily. As a consultant at the MAMTA Health Institute of Mother and Child and a health coach at NGOs, she has supervised health camps and activities in rural and urban settings. As founder of Nutrideck, she counsels people, both individually and in collaboration with organizations such as Mahila Patanjali Yog Samiti and Kaka Ayurvedic Chiktsalya, on lifestyle management in order to combat noncommunicable diseases and raise awareness about healthy living. She received a doctorate degree in Public Health and Nutrition from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India.

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