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      Plant-based nutrition for healthcare professionals: implementing diet as a primary modality in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease

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          Cardiovascular disease remains the world's leading cause of death. Yet, we have known for decades that the vast majority of atherosclerosis and its subsequent morbidity and mortality are influenced predominantly by diet. This paper will describe a health-promoting whole food, plant-based diet; delineate macro- and micro-nutrition, emphasizing specific geriatric concerns; and offer guidance to physicians and other healthcare practitioners to support patients in successfully utilizing nutrition to improve their health.

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          Polyphenols: chemistry, dietary sources, metabolism, and nutritional significance.

          Laura Bravo (1998)
          Polyphenols constitute one of the most numerous and ubiquitous groups of plant metabolites and are an integral part of both human and animal diets. Ranging from simple phenolic molecules to highly polymerized compounds with molecular weights of greater than 30,000 Da, the occurrence of this complex group of substances in plant foods is extremely variable. Polyphenols traditionally have been considered antinutrients by animal nutritionists, because of the adverse effect of tannins, one type of polyphenol, on protein digestibility. However, recent interest in food phenolics has increased greatly, owing to their antioxidant capacity (free radical scavenging and metal chelating activities) and their possible beneficial implications in human health, such as in the treatment and prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other pathologies. Much of the literature refers to a single group of plant phenolics, the flavonoids. This review offers an overview of the nutritional effects of the main groups of polyphenolic compounds, including their metabolism, effects on nutrient bioavailability, and antioxidant activity, as well as a brief description of the chemistry of polyphenols and their occurrence in plant foods.
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            The intersection between aging and cardiovascular disease.

            Brian North, David A Sinclair (2012)
            The average lifespan of humans is increasing, and with it the percentage of people entering the 65 and older age group is growing rapidly and will continue to do so in the next 20 years. Within this age group, cardiovascular disease will remain the leading cause of death, and the cost associated with treatment will continue to increase. Aging is an inevitable part of life and unfortunately poses the largest risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Although numerous studies in the cardiovascular field have considered both young and aged humans, there are still many unanswered questions as to how the genetic pathways that regulate aging in model organisms influence cardiovascular aging. Likewise, in the molecular biology of aging field, few studies fully assess the role of these aging pathways in cardiovascular health. Fortunately, this gap is beginning to close, and these two fields are merging together. We provide an overview of some of the key genes involved in regulating lifespan and health span, including sirtuins, AMP-activated protein kinase, mammalian target of rapamycin, and insulin-like growth factor 1 and their roles regulating cardiovascular health. We then discuss a series of review articles that will appear in succession and provide a more comprehensive analysis of studies carried out linking genes of aging and cardiovascular health, and perspectives of future directions of these two intimately linked fields.
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              Health benefits of fruit and vegetables are from additive and synergistic combinations of phytochemicals.

              Rui Hai Liu (2003)
              Cardiovascular disease and cancer are ranked as the first and second leading causes of death in the United States and in most industrialized countries. Regular consumption of fruit and vegetables is associated with reduced risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, Alzheimer disease, cataracts, and some of the functional declines associated with aging. Prevention is a more effective strategy than is treatment of chronic diseases. Functional foods that contain significant amounts of bioactive components may provide desirable health benefits beyond basic nutrition and play important roles in the prevention of chronic diseases. The key question is whether a purified phytochemical has the same health benefit as does the whole food or mixture of foods in which the phytochemical is present. Our group found, for example, that the vitamin C in apples with skin accounts for only 0.4% of the total antioxidant activity, suggesting that most of the antioxidant activity of fruit and vegetables may come from phenolics and flavonoids in apples. We propose that the additive and synergistic effects of phytochemicals in fruit and vegetables are responsible for their potent antioxidant and anticancer activities, and that the benefit of a diet rich in fruit and vegetables is attributed to the complex mixture of phytochemicals present in whole foods.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Geriatr Cardiol
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Geriatr Cardiol
                Journal ID (publisher-id): JGC
                Title: Journal of Geriatric Cardiology : JGC
                Publisher: Science Press
                ISSN (Print): 1671-5411
                Publication date (Print): May 2017
                Volume: 14
                Issue: 5
                Pages: 355-368
                Affiliations
                [1 ]To Your Health Fitness and Nutrition, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
                [2 ]Thermogenex, Huntsville, AL, USA
                Author notes
                Correspondence to: Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, To Your Health Fitness and Nutrition, 9454 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 920, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA. E-mail: julieannahevermsrd@ 123456yahoo.com
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                Publisher ID: jgc-14-05-355
                DOI: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2017.05.012
                PMC ID: 5466942
                PubMed ID: 28630615
                SO-VID: 00bf6ef9-1d1a-4662-8018-b38701f62fd6
                Copyright © Institute of Geriatric Cardiology
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which allows readers to alter, transform, or build upon the article and then distribute the resulting work under the same or similar license to this one. The work must be attributed back to the original author and commercial use is not permitted without specific permission.

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                Date received : 1 March 2017
                Date revision received : 6 May 2017
                Date accepted : 21 May 2017
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Cardiovascular Medicine
                Keywords: aging,health span,plant-based nutrition,preventive medicine,vegetarian
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Cardiovascular Medicine
                Keywords: aging, health span, plant-based nutrition, preventive medicine, vegetarian

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