Nutraceuticals: New Era of Medicine and Health

Abstract

The concept of Nutraceuticals was first introduced in the survey from the UK, Germany and France, where diet is rated more highly by consumers than exercise or hereditary factors for achieving good health. The word nutritional is a blend of the words nutrition and pharmaceuticals. Nutraceuticals, in broad terms, are foods or parts of foods that play a significant role in modifying and maintaining normal physiological function that maintains healthy human being. “Let food be your medicine’’ is a common misquotation attributed to Hippocrates, who is the father of western medicine, according to the health Canada. Nutraceuticals are foods or products prepared from food but sold in the forms of pills, powder, etc. (portion) or in other medicinal forms not usually associated with food. The benefits of Nutraceuticals are limitless as well as effective in everyday life, from physiological heath Nutraceuticals have the potential to treat a wide array of illness and ailments. Recent studies have shown promising results for the effectiveness of herbal Nutraceuticals on disorder related to oxidative stress, including Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disorders, cancers, diabetes, inflammatory disease ,Parkinson’s disease ,and obesity ,in whole , “ nutritional ”has provide a route to a new era of medicine and health ,in which the food industry has become a research oriented sector.