Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I. -- Introduction -- Nutrigenomics and proteomics in health and disease: an overview / Yoshinori Mine, Kazuo Miyashita, and Fereidoon Shahidi -- Omics in nutrition and health research / Michael Affolter, Fr�ed�eric Raymond, and Martin Kussman -- Section II. -- Genomics and proteomics in health and diseases -- Toward personalized nutrition and medicine: promises and challenges / Baitang Ning and Jim Kaput -- Obesity and nuclear receptors: effective genomic strategies in functional foods / Teruo Kawada ...[et al.] -- Inflammatory genes involved in obesity-induced inflammatory responses and pathologies / Rina Yu -- Genomics and proteomics in allergy / Icy D'Silva and Yoshinori Mine -- g Section III. -- Food factors -- gene interactions -- Beneficial effects of conjugated linoleic acid / Kazunori Koba and Teruyoshi Yanagita -- Regulation of gene transcription by fatty acids / Jean-Paul P�egorier -- Nonnutrient functionality of amino acids / Yoshinori Mine and Connie J. Kim -- Functional bioactive proteins and peptides in nutrigenomics / Denise Young and Yoshinori Mine -- Antiobesity effect of allenic carotenoid, fucoxanthin / Kazuo Miyashita and Masashi Hosokawa -- Control of systemic inflammation and chronic diseases -- The -- use of turmeric and curcuminoids / Stig Bengmark-- Alteration in gene expression and proteomic profiles by soy isoflavone / Fazlul H. Sarkar and Yiwei Li -- Green tea polyphenol-modulated genome functions for protective 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 components activating Capsaicin receptor TRPV1 / Tatsuo Watanabe ...[et al.] -- New therapeutic effects of anthocyanins: antiobesity effect, antidiabetes effect, and vision improvement / Takanori Tsuda and Hitoshi Matsumoto -- Licorice flavonoids / Shinichi Honda, Yuji Tominaga, and Shinichi Yokota -- Isoprenols / Tsuyoshi Goto ...[et al.] -- Anti-inflammatory and anticarcinogenesis potentials of citrus coumarins and polymethylated flavonoids / Akira Murakami and Hajime Ohigashi -- Probiotics: food for thought / Kingsley C. Anukam and Gregor Reid -- Section IV. -- Advanced analytical techniques for nutrigenomics 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 cancer gene networking / Edwin Wang -- Peptidomics / Yoshinori Mine.