Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I. Introduction -- Nutrigenomics and proteomics in hea lth and disease: an overview / Yoshinori Mine, Kazuo Miyashita, and Fereidoon Shahidi -- Omics in nutrition and health research / Mic hael Affolter, Frâedâeric Raymond, and Martin Kussman -- Section II. Genomics and proteomics in health and diseases -- Toward persona lized nutrition and medicine: promises and challenges / Baitang Ning and Jim Kaput -- Obesity and nuclear receptors: effective genomic s trategies in functional foods / Teruo Kawada ...[et al.] -- Infla mmatory genes involved in obesity-induced inflammatory responses and pa thologies / Rina Yu -- Genomics and proteomics in allergy / Ic y D'Silva and Yoshinori Mine -- g Section III. Food factors -- gene interactions -- Beneficial effects of conjugated linoleic a cid / Kazunori Koba and Teruyoshi Yanagita -- Regulation of gene transcription by fatty acids / Jean-Paul Pâegorier -- Nonnutrient functionality of amino acids / Yoshinori Mine and Connie J. Kim -- Functional bioactive proteins and peptides in nutrigenomics / De nise Young and Yoshinori Mine -- Antiobesity effect of allenic carot enoid, fucoxanthin / Kazuo Miyashita and Masashi Hosokawa -- Cont rol of systemic inflammation and chronic diseases -- The use of t urmeric and curcuminoids / Stig Bengmark-- Alteration in gene expres sion and proteomic profiles by soy isoflavone / Fazlul H. Sarkar and Yiwei Li -- Green tea polyphenol-modulated genome functions for pro tective health benefits / Molay K. Roy, Mahendra P. Kapoor, and Lekh R. Juneja -- Oat avenanthramides: a novel antioxident / Li Li Ji , Ryan Koenig, and Mitchell L. Wise -- Cancer-preventive effects and molecular actions of anthocyanins / De-Xing Hou -- Food componen ts activating Capsaicin receptor TRPV1 / Tatsuo Watanabe ...[et al.] -- New therapeutic effects of anthocyanins: antiobesity effect, ant idiabetes effect, and vision improvement / Takanori Tsuda and Hitosh i Matsumoto -- Licorice flavonoids / Shinichi Honda, Yuji Tominag a, and Shinichi Yokota -- Isoprenols / Tsuyoshi Goto ...[et al.] -- Anti-inflammatory and anticarcinogenesis potentials of citrus cou marins and polymethylated flavonoids / Akira Murakami and Hajime Ohi gashi -- Probiotics: food for thought / Kingsley C. Anukam and Gr egor Reid -- Section IV. Advanced analytical techniques for nutri genomics and proteomics -- Microarrays: a powerful tool for studying the functions of food and its nutrients / Hiroshi Mano, Jun Shimizu , and Masahiro Wada -- Challenges and current solutions in proteomic sample preparations / Feng Tao -- Computational methods in cance r gene networking / Edwin Wang -- Peptidomics / Yoshinori Mine .