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Nutrition and Women's Health

Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals, and Integrative Strategies

  • 1st Edition - December 19, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Prashant Lakshaman Pingale, Kamal Dua
  • Language: English

Nutrition and Women's Health: Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals, and Integrative Strategies delves into the critical role nutrition plays in human health, highlighting its growin… Read more

Description

Nutrition and Women's Health: Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals, and Integrative Strategies delves into the critical role nutrition plays in human health, highlighting its growing importance among healthcare providers, research scientists, nutritionists, and dietitians. Despite significant progress, there remains a lack of targeted research specifically addressing women's nutritional needs at various life stages. This book aims to fill that gap, offering comprehensive insights into the benefits of nutraceuticals and functional foods for disease prevention, treatment, and recurrence through different phases of a woman's life.

The book covers a wide range of topics, including nutritional modules for teenage nutrition, the interaction of sex hormones, menopause management, polycystic ovary syndrome, fertility, and bone, skin, and heart health. It emphasizes the underlying causes of various pathophysiological conditions linked to nutrition and provides practical diet plans to help avoid health issues across various age groups. Expert authors present evidence-based strategies for improving women's health through nutrition, making this book an invaluable resource for professionals and individuals alike.

Key features

  • Explores the benefits of nutraceuticals for prevention, treatment, and recurrence of disease through women's various life stages
  • Demonstrates the role of nutraceuticals essential for women to help circumvent health issues at different life stages
  • Highlights nutrition management for polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Discusses the impact of nutrition to balance hormonal and gynecological health
  • Examines dietary choices to maintain optimal cardiovascular health

Readership

Researchers in the food sciences working in the fields of nutrition, nutraceuticals, and functional foods. Health care physicians including general physicians, pediatricians, and gynecologists

Table of contents

1. Nutrition in adolescent, puberty and young girls

2. Nutrition: Women health and ageing

3. Nutritional Strategies: Women sex hormone and interactions

4. Nutrition in women fertility and developmental stages

5. Nutrition in Pregnancy and Breast Feeding Women

6. Nutritional management in polycystic ovary syndrome

7. Impact of nutrition in infertility to menopause and vaginal infection

8. Nutrition and gynecologic cancer: Prevention, treatment and recurrence

9. Nutrition in bone health

10. Nutrition and hearth health

11. Nutrition in skin health

12. Role of nutrients in gestational diabetes management

13. Nutrition in women weight management

14. Women neurological disorders: Novel nutritional approaches

15. Nutritional requirement of the pediatric and geriatric population

16. Current clinical investigations in nutraceuticals development

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 23, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

PP

Prashant Lakshaman Pingale

Dr. Pingale received his PhD in 2014 from NMIMS University in Mumbai on the topic of herbal bioenhancers, one of his main areas of interest. He has presented his studies at conferences in Hanoi, Cape Town, Tokyo, and Granada and written several books on the subject. He has written journal articles on diabetic retinopathy. Other areas of interest include women’s health, Herbal formulation, and Bioenhancement using herbals.

Affiliations and expertise
Gosavi College of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, India

KD

Kamal Dua

Kamal Dua is a Professor in the NICM Health Research Institute and the School of Science at Western Sydney University (WSU). Dr Dua has been recognised and named as one of Australia’s Top 250 researchers in 2026, 2025 and 2024 in Research Magazine by “The Australian” in the research discipline of Health and Medical sciences, and #1/research leader in the area of Pharmacology and Pharmacy (2026, 2025) and Toxicology (2024) respectively. With over 17 years of research experience, he has specialised in drug delivery targeting inflammatory diseases. Additionally, Dr Dua also leads drug delivery research at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. In this role, he focuses on advancing targets identified in research projects to develop innovative formulations, taking the first steps toward clinical translation. Dr Dua’s research encompasses two complementary areas: drug delivery and immunology. His work explores how these disciplines can mutually benefit, contributing to the goal of promoting longer and healthier lives for the community. His commitment to synergy is reflected in his extensive publication record in reputable journals. Dr Dua’s research interests are centered on harnessing the pharmaceutical potential of modulating critical regulators, such as interleukins and microRNAs. He also specialises in developing new and effective drug delivery formulations for managing inflammation in chronic airway diseases and cancer.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor in the NICM Health Research Institute and the School of Science at Western Sydney University (WSU)

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