Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals

"Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals: Nutritional Requirements and Health Benefits" is the ultimate guide for students of Pharmacy and other health professional courses. This compilation covers all the basic and applied information in a concise and easy-to-understand manner.This book includes comprehensive coverage of dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods including phytochemicals with their natural sources and detailed health benefits and medicinal uses.Written in a student-friendly style, this book would be a valuable resource to the readers to know about dietary supplements, nutraceuticals, and functional foods. Learning about the natural sources of phytochemicals, their dietary requirements and antioxidant role against human diseases would certainly be useful to the readers.          The book meets the requirements of course curriculum to deal with the subject as per the Pharmacy Council of India prescribed syllabus. This book will also fulfill the requirements of dieticians, hospital and clinical pharmacists, nurses and medical practitioners for dietary management in public health. Contents:1.    Diet, Nutrition and Public Health2.    Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals3.    Phytochemicals as Nutraceuticals4.    Free Radicals, Human Diseases and Antioxidants5.    Quality, Safety and Regulatory Aspects About the Author: Mithun Rudrapal, PhD, FIC, FICS, CChem (India), is Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology & Research (Deemed to be University), Guntur, India. He has been actively engaged in teaching and research in the field of pharmaceutical and allied sciences for more than 13 years. He has over a hundred publications in peer-reviewed International journals to his credit and has filed a number of Indian and International patents. In addition, He is the author of a dozen published or forthcoming books. He is a reviewer of a number of journals with reputed national and international publishers. He is a Life member of IPA, APTI, ISCA, IPS, IAPST and various other professional bodies. He is a Fellow and Chartered Chemist of Institution of Chemists (India) and a Fellow of Indian Chemical Society. He works in the areas of Medicinal Chemistry, computer-aided drug design (CADD), infectious diseases, drug repurposing, phytochemistry, herbal drugs, and nanophytotherapeutics. Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya is working as Assistant Professor in Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India since 2011. Previously, he worked as Quality Assurance Chemist in a Pharmaceutical Industry. He is a Life Member of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) and Indian Pharmacy Graduates' Association (IPGA). He is presently an Executive Committee Member of IPGA-Bengal Branch. He is examiner to many Universities, Councils, and faculties of West Bengal. He has also performed as a resource person and Communicator in different up-gradation training programs for Registered Pharmacists in West Bengal on Role of Pharmacists in Public Health challenges and Medication errors organized by Indian Pharmacy Graduate Association, Bengal Branch as per section 4.2 of the Pharmacy Practice Regulation 2015. He has authored 2 books and 6 book chapters, and published his works in several National and International journals and conferences.