Chocolate, Fast Foods & Sweeteners

Preface; Sweeteners: Uses, Dietary Intake, & Health Effects; Allergenicity & Immunogenicity of Sugar Alcohol Sweeteners; Limitations of Hydration in Offsetting the Decline in Exercise Performance in Experimental Settings: Fact or Fancy?; Is There an Anti-Inflammatory Potential Beyond the Antioxidant Power of Cocoa?; Sugar Alcohol-Induced Diarrhea & Antidiarrheal Effect of Polysaccharides; Fructose -- A Sweet Risk of Fatty Liver Disease; Sweeteners, Glycemic Index, Addiction & the Obesity Epidemic: Are They Linked?; Small, Medium, Large or Super Size? Consumers' & Fast Food Representatives' Perceptions of Fast Food Portion Sizes & their Attitudes towards Environmental Interventions Aimed at Portion Size; Polyphenols in Cocoa: Influence of Processes on their Composition & Biological Activities; Australian Consumer Perceptions of Fast Food: A Qualitative Study; Fluid Osmolarity of Sports Drinks; Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) Catechins: Occurrence, Health Effects & Modifications during Processing; Chocolate -- A Significant Part of Nutrition Intervention among Old Nursing Home Residents; Seed Color as an Indicator of Flavanol Content in Theobroma cacao L; Exploring the Decision-Making Strategies of Couples in Romantic Relationships with Regard to Food Consumption: A Look at the Past, Present, & Future; Modulation of Drug Transporter Activities by Dietary Phytochemicals in Food Sweeteners; Fast Food & the Global Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes: Are we Doomed to Become Obese & Develop Diabetes?; Assessing the Content of Hotdogs & Fast Food Hamburgers -- Where's the Meat?; Delicious or Addictive? (Larry D. Reid, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA); Index.