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Cultural forces shape much of medicine including psychiatry, and medicine shapes much of our culture. Medicine provides us with beneficial treatments of disease, but it also causes harm, increasingly so in the form of overmedication enhanced by the pharmaceutical industry. The book explores boundaries of medicine and psychiatry in a cultural setting by building bridges between unconnected literatures. Boundaries have to be redrawn since effects of the environment, biological, social and political, on health and disease are undervalued. Potential beneficial effects of diet therapies are a recurrent theme throughout the text, with particular emphasis on omega-3 fatty acids. Deficiencies of these acids in common diets may contribute to many chronic diseases and psychiatric disorders. The book uncovers limitations of evidence-based medicine, which fosters a restrictive view of health and disease. Case studies include: the biology of migraine; limitations of biological psychiatry; conventional versus alternative medicine; science, religion and near-death experiences.

Disease --- Evidence-Based Medicine --- Fatty Acids, Omega-3 --- Medicine --- Philosophy, Medical --- Psychiatry --- methods --- therapeutic use --- Philosophy

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Death, Sudden, Cardiac --- Heart Rate --- Fatty Acids, Omega-3 --- Heart Rate --- prevention & control --- physiology --- administration & dosage --- drug effects

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Omega-3 Delivery Systems: Production, Physical Characterization and Oxidative Stability offers the most recent updates for developing, characterizing, and stabilizing both traditional and novel omega-3 delivery systems, including their final incorporation into food matrices and physicochemical changes during digestion. The book brings chapters on novel omega-3 delivery systems (e.g., high-fat emulsions, Pickering emulsions, electrosprayed capsules, and solid lipid nanoparticles), the application of advanced techniques to evaluate physical and oxidative stabilities (e.g., SAXS, SANS, ESR, and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy), and new developments of food enrichment and physicochemical changes during digestion. The book provides a unique multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach, i.e., featuring authors from industry and academy. Long chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) present numerous health benefits; however, the consumption of natural products rich in omega-3 PUFA (e.g., fish, krill, and algae) is not enough to reach the daily-recommended values. Therefore, the food industry is highly interested in producing omega-3 fortified foods.

Omega-3 fatty acids. --- Fatty Acids, Omega-3. --- N-3 fatty acids --- Omega-3 EFA --- Omega-3 essential fatty acids --- Unsaturated fatty acids --- High-omega-3 fatty acid diet --- Fatty acids. --- Acids, Fatty --- Carboxylic acids

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Omega-3 fatty acids --- Pregnancy --- Newborn infants --- Evidence-Based Practice --- Investigative Techniques --- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Fatty Acids, Unsaturated --- Clinical Medicine --- Dietary Fats, Unsaturated --- Fish Oils --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures. --- Physiological Phenomena --- Medicine --- Oils --- Fatty Acids --- Dietary Fats --- Health Occupations --- Lipids --- Fats --- Fatty Acids, Omega-3 --- Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Methods --- Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Evidence-Based Medicine --- Physiological effect --- Therapeutic use --- Nutritional aspects --- Diseases

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Dietary Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Cancer provides all the latest information on the possible benefits of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) against a wide series of cancers. Several influential scientists in this field have contributed to make this book an unique one amongst the others published so far in this field. The chapters give detailed information about the results obtained in this field through experimental studies conducted on both animals and cultured cells, as well as through human intervention trials and epidemiological observational studies. This book represents an important tool for researchers working in nutrition and oncology, since it collects all the knowledge about omega-3 PUFAs and cancer, even the most recent, in a single publication. For the first time controversies among the different studies are also covered with great details in this book. The book makes physicians able to clearly understand on a scientific basis if their oncologic patients or patients at risk of cancer could actually benefit from a diet enriched in omega-3 PUFAs or from a dietary supplementation with these fatty acids. The book represents also a good resource for ordinary individuals as well as cancer patients to learn more about omega-3 PUFAs and understand how these dietary components may effect cancer growth.

Cancer -- Nutritional aspects. --- Cancer -- Prevention. --- Omega-3 fatty acids -- Health aspects. --- Cancer --- Medicine, Chinese --- Diseases --- Medicine, East Asian Traditional --- Dietary Fats, Unsaturated --- Fish Oils --- Fatty Acids, Unsaturated --- Fatty Acids, Omega-3 --- Medicine, Chinese Traditional --- Neoplasms --- Dietary Fats --- Fatty Acids --- Oils --- Medicine, Traditional --- Fats --- Lipids --- Complementary Therapies --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Therapeutics --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Medicine --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Oncology --- Animal Biochemistry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Alternative treatment --- Omega-3 fatty acids --- Nutritional aspects. --- Prevention. --- Health aspects. --- N-3 fatty acids --- Omega-3 EFA --- Omega-3 essential fatty acids --- Medicine. --- Cancer research. --- Nutrition. --- Oncology. --- Biomedicine. --- Cancer Research. --- Unsaturated fatty acids --- High-omega-3 fatty acid diet