ch. 1. Nutritional epigenetics and disease prevention : are we there yet? / Mukesh Verma -- ch. 2. Aging by epigenetics : nutrition, an epigenetic key to long life / Nilanjana Maulik and Gautam Maulik -- ch. 3. Folate and DNA methylation / Julie Crowell, Anna Ly, and Young-In Kim -- ch. 4. Dietary components, epigenetics, and cancer / Cindy D. Davis and Sharon A. Ross -- ch. 5. Dietary factors, histone modifications, and cancer prevention / Igor P. Pogribny, Sharon A. Ross and Igor Koturbash -- ch. 6. Nutrition, epigenetics, and vascular function / M. Carey Satterfield ... [et al.] -- ch. 7. Role of epigenetic machinery and micRNAs in diet-induced hepatocarcinogenesis / Kalpana Ghoshal and Tasneem Motiwala -- ch. 8. Epigenetic mechanisms in lung inflammation and chronic airway diseases and intervention by dietary polyphenols / Irfan Rahman -- ch. 9. Glycemic memory and epigenetic changes / Andrew L. Siebel, Ana Z. Fernandez, and Assam El-Osta -- ch. 10. Maternal nutrition, intrauterine development, and disease risks in the offspring through epigenetic regulation of gene expression / Yuan-Xiang Pan, Rita Strakovsky and Shasha Zheng -- ch. 11. Nutritional epigenetics : impact on metabolic syndrome / Lakshminarasimhan Pavithra, Sreenivas Chavali and Samit Chattopadhyay -- ch. 12. Nutrition and the emerging epigenetic paradigm : lessons from neurobehavioral disorders / Axel Schumacher -- ch. 13. Interactions between folate, other B vitamins, DNA methylation, and neurodevelopmental disorders / Rebecca J. Schmidt and Janine M. LaSalle -- ch. 14. Dietary factors and the emerging role of epigenetics in neurodegenerative diseases / Lucia Migliore and Fabio Copped.̈