Product Description: Dietary fat is an important source of nutrients and is proven to be beneficial to human health, however excess intake of certain types of fats has also been associated with the development of many chronic diseases. Written by a group of lipid experts who participated in the 2004 AOCS-JOCS Joint Symposium on Bioscience, the material contains information from lectures presented in the meeting, as well as invited papers from authors who could not attend...read more

Product Description: The biotechnology of the naturally occurring fatty acid absorbs the attention of the first few of 22 papers, which have been precipitated from oral presentations at an April 2000 international symposium in San Diego, California. They consider such aspects as identifying and characterizing genes involved in its synthesis; its metabolism; and metabolic and biochemical studies of animals fed the transgenic canola oil, which is high in the acid...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Lipids in Infant Nutrition - Edited by Yung-Sheng Huang & Andrew J. Sinclair

Product Description: The First International Symposium of - gama linolenic acid (GLA) was held in conjunction with the 1995 Annual Meeting of the AOCS in San Antonio, Texas. This meeting brought together many world-renowned experts to overview in depth the biochemistry, metabolism, nutrition, and clinical use of GLA...read more