Volume 88: Issue Suppl.2

Contents

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Foreword

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Summary Report Functional Foods: Scientific and Global Perspectives

P. M. Verschuren

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EU-funded research on functional foods

Jürgen Lucas

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Global view on functional foods: European perspectives

M. B. Roberfroid

S139

Global view on functional foods: Asian perspectives

S. Arai

S145

Functional foods: Latin American perspectives

Franco M. Lajolo

S151

Functional foods and health: a US perspective

J. A. Milner

S159

Gastrointestinal physiology and functions

Barbara O. Schneeman

S165

The immune system: a target for functional foods?

Philip C. Calder and Samantha Kew

S177

Functional foods and food supplements for athletes: from myths to benefit claims substantiation through the study of selected biomarkers

Fred Brouns, Michiel van Nieuwenhoven, Asker Jeukendrup and Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt

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Functional foods: psychological and behavioural functions

Louise Dye and John Blundell

S213

Biomarkers and functional foods for obesity and diabetes

James O. Hill and John C. Peters

S219

Scientific basis of biomarkers and benefits of functional foods for reduction of disease risk: cancer

Joseph J. Rafter

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Functional foods, trends and future

J. A. Weststrate, G. van Poppel and P. M. Verschuren