Dietary phytochemicals beneficial to obesity and cancer management: a review

Dietary phytochemicals and their potential effects on obesity: a review.

The incidence of obesity is rising at an alarming rate and is becoming a major public health concern with incalculable social costs. Indeed, obesity facilitates the development of metabolic disorders such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases in addition to chronic diseases such as stroke, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, some cancers, and inflammation-bases pathologies. In this re...

Dietary Fiber and Obesity Management - A Review

Physiological description of fiber implies that dietary fiber is a plant subunit that is not being degraded to absorbable subunits in the small intestine by alimentary enzymes found in human beings [1]. Generally, dietary fibers are non-starch polysaccharides including cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, pectin, gum and mucilage and non-polysaccharide (lignin). Health benefits of the consumption ...

Molecular Targets of Dietary Phytochemicals for Human Chronic Diseases: Cancer, Obesity, and Alzheimer’s Diseases

Naturally occurring dietary phytochemicals have been recognized as possessing many health-promoting effects. Recent studies suggest that inflammation is closely related to chronic disease, including cancer, atherosclerosis, neurodegeneration, obesity, diabetes, asthma, articular rheumatism, and skin-aging. Extracellular stimuli transmit signals into a cell by activating the target kinases invol...

Chemoprevention of Skin Cancer with Dietary Phytochemicals

Functions of Obesity-related Hormones in Breast Cancer: A Review

ABSTRACT            Obesity is a health problem defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in adipose tissue. Adipokines such as adiponectin, visfatin and resistin are bioactive polypeptides with pro- and anti-inflammatory properties that are secreted by the adipose tissue that are involved in the pathogenesis and prognosis of diseases ...