This book summarizes the reported health benefits of bioactive factors in cereal foods and
their potential underlying mechanisms. Focusing on potential mechanisms that contribute to the
various effects of bioactive factors on obesity diabetes and other metabolic diseases it
helps to clarify several dilemmas and encourages further investigations in this field. Intended
to promote the consumption of cereal foods or whole cereal foods to reduce the risk of chronic
diseases and to improve daily dietary nutrition in the near future the book was mainly
written for researchers and graduate students in the fields of nutrition food science and
molecular biology.
